Personal profile

Niu Hongbao is a senior professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China. He mainly engages in research and teaching on modern Western aesthetics, aesthetic theory, Kantian aesthetics, cross-cultural context and knowledge formation, Iconology of art, as well as Chinese and Western art history. He has conducted in-depth research on the aesthetic modernity, subjectivity, and "linguistic turn" in modern Western aesthetics. His works have had important influence domestically and he has published influential results in the field of conceptual history such as intuition, metaphor, and expressionism. His book "An Introduction to Aesthetics" is a fundamental work on aesthetics for the 21st century. It was included in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan Textbook" by the state government and has been widely adopted by domestic universities with its fourth edition already released. Currently, his research focuses primarily on iconology of art and philosophy of art with particular emphasis on Chinese art image studies.

Courses offered include: Research on modern Western Aesthetic Issues, History of Western Aesthetics, Introduction to Kant's Critique of Judgment, Art and Image, and Analysis in Cross-cultural Contexts.

Works:

1. "A History of Modern Western Aesthetics" (2014), Peking University Press.

2. "Introduction to Aesthetics" (2005, 2007, 2012, 2016), Renmin University of China Press.

3. "Modern Western Aesthetics" (2002), Shanghai People's Publishing House.

4. "Western Aesthetics in the Context of Chinese Language" (1999), Anhui Education Press.

5. "Major Trends in Western Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century" (1996), Hubei People's Publishing House.

Translation:

1. Lacan (2000), Kunlun Publishing House, Beijing.

2. Art Foundation: Theory and Practice (2009), Peking University Press.

3. Reader on Philosophy of Arts (2016), Renmin University of China Press.