Jie Wang is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and Yangtze River Scholar at the College of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Research on Marxist Aesthetics.Zheng Shen is Associate Professor in the Shi Liangcai School of Journalism and Communication at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. She has published 11 SSCI/CSSCI/A&HCI papers and 2 books, including Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism: Interviews with Western Scholars.Armida de la Garza is Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of one monograph and 27 journal articles and book chapters.

• List of Figures and TablesAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Controversy and Construction in Contemporary Aesthetics: an IntroductionJie Wang, Zheng Shen and Armida de la GarzaPART 1: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Technological Advancements1 Aesthetics and the Arts of EngagementArnold Berleant2 Adorno, Stiegler, and Industrial Schemata of ExperienceTyrus Miller3 Social Value and Aesthetic Judgement – Television in the UKDavid Margolies4 Industrial Development of New Media Arts in ChinaQingben LiPART 2: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Aesthetic Capitalism5 Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and Emergency CapitalismFabio Vighi6 The ‘Cultivated Imagination as a Condition Precedent for Revolutionary Class-Struggle’Michael Sanders7 Contemporary Aesthetics Issues: New Horizons for Researches of Economic Aesthetics in Economic SociologyAlexander PetrovPART 3: Transcultural Aesthetics8 Fiction and the ImaginationDerek Matravers9 Cultural Industries and the Cultural Front – Historical and Contemporary ReflectionsJustin O’Connor10 Aesthetics of Atmosphere and Intercultural StudiesZhuofei Wang11 Practice, Reflection and Inspiration of Art Involvement in Community Revitalization in JapanYongjian WangPART 4: The Rise of Chinese Aesthetics12 Identity and Hybridity – Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of GlobalizationKarl-Heinz Pohl13 The Kowtow and the Eyeball TestMario Wenning14 Intermediality in Qing Ming Shang He Tu: from Visual Image to MusicGermán Gil-Curiel15 New Research Directions of Marxist Aesthetics: a Case of Contemporary ChinaZheng Shen16 Aesthetic Modernity: a Preliminary Exploration of the Ethnography of Emotions in Contemporary ChinaJie Wang and Tian ShiPART 5: Multidisciplinary Aesthetics: Converging of Fields17 What Does It Mean to be Human? A Critique of Design ThinkingHarold P. Sjursen18 Aesthetic Anthropology: Constructing a New System of Contemporary Aesthetic and Art CriticismJie Wang and Fanjun Meng19 ‘Crafting’ an Aesthetics of Science: Textile Artwork and Science CommunicationArmida de la Garza and Zheng Shen20 Contemporary Aesthetics from the Perspective of Cognitive Neuroscience—Centered on ‘Aesthetic Cognitive Mode’Yushui LiangReferencesIndex