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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice 9
4. Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction 21
5. Part 1 Living Aesthetically
6. 1 Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully 43
7. 2 Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi 59
8. 3 Investigation of Things: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics 73
9. Part 2 Nature and Environment
10. 4 The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West 91
11. 5 Cryosphere Aesthetics 107
12. Part 3 Eating and Drinking
13. 6 Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste 125
14. 7 Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating 139
15. 8 Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations 153
16. Part 4 Creative Life
17. 9 Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony 169
18. 10 Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics 183
19. Part 5 Technology and Images
20. 11 Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets 201
21. 12 Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics 221
22. 13 Images and Reality 235
23. Part 6 Relationships and Communities
24. 14 Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy 253
25. 15 Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women 269
26. Index 285