On the Course of ZHU Guang-qian's Aesthetics

In this paper, the aesthetics of ZHU Guang-qian is studied systemically in the context of all his life. It is the purpose of the author to discover an logic line on which aesthetic thought of ZHU Guang-qian proceeded by researching the history of studying Chinese and Western aesthetics of ZHU Guang-qian. Most of scholars divided the course of ZHU Guang-qian's aesthetics into two stages: one before 1949 and the other after 1949. Whereas, the author considers that the course of ZHU Guang-qian's aesthetics contains four stages: a. the stage of pro-aesthetics (1897—1925), b. the stage of aesthetics (1926—1935), c. the stage of aesthetic practice (1936—1948), d. the stage of critic aesthetics (1949—1986). This is a new division which not only thinks of affections of ZHU Guang-qian from the great changes of Chinese society in 1949, but also pays attention to those logic changes of the course of ZHU Guang-qian's aesthetics.