Lure of the Supreme Joy

Xin Conan-Wu (吳欣), Ph.D. (2008), University of Bristol, is Margaret Hamilton Associate Professor of Art History at William & Mary. She has published English and Chinese monographs, articles and edited volumes on landscape in ancient China and the contemporary world, including “Garden Art” in A Companion to Chinese Art (Wiley, 2015).

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction



Prologue: Zhu Xi in His Time

 1 The Changing World of the Educated Elite and Their Anxieties

 2 Zhu Xi (1130–1200)



Part 1: Visuality and the Academy

1 An Archaeology of Visualities

 1 The Regime of the Classical Gaze

 2 Buddhism and Visualization

 3 Visuality in Landscape Poetry

 4 Xie Lingyun (385–433)

 5 Wang Wei (ca. 699–761) and the Tang Poets

 6 Synopsis



2 Learning and Visuality at White-Deer Grotto

 1 The Restoration

 2 Zhu Xi on Learning

 3 The Gaze that Probes the Principle

 4 A Neo-Confucian Inquiry of Visual Experience



Part 2: Spatiality and the Academy

3 An Archaeology of Spatialities

 1 Patterns of Spatiality since Antiquity

 2 Spatialities of Emptiness

 3 The Eight Views of Xiaoxiang

 4 Synopsis



4 The Ten Scenes of Yuelu [Academy]

 1 The Meeting of Zhu-Zhang and Song Scholar’s Gardens

 2 A Philosophical Path between Mountain and Water

 3 A Field of Confucian Wisdom

 4 An Interpretation of the Agency of Place



Part 3: Place-Making and Pedagogy

5 Environment and Pedagogical Practices

 1 The Site: External Appearance versus Inner Activities

 2 The Supreme Joy amid Mountain-and-Water

 3 The Environment as Pedagogical Apparatus



6 Singing along the Nine-Bend Stream

 1 Wuyi Retreat and the Boat Songs

 2 The Afterlife of the Nine Bends

 3 An Art of Place-Making



7 The Eight Views Revisited

 1 The Gazetteers of Yuelu

 2 Eight Views of the Academy

 3 A Genealogy of the Pedagogy



8 Epilogue

 1 Zhu Xi’s Natural Pedagogy

 2 Neo-Confucian Contributions to Changes in Cultural Sensibilities

 3 The Pervasive Role of Emotions

List of Characters

Bibliography

Index