Xin Ji—Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Department of Art Theory
Biography
Xin Ji, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Arts, Southeast University, was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, in 1980.
Education & Work Experience
B.A. (Department of Ancient Chinese Culture, School of Humanities, Southeast University), 1998.9-2002.7.
Major: Management Science
M.A. (Center for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Cultures , School of Humanities, Southeast University, selected to study for the doctorate prior to graduation ), 2003.9-2005.2.
D.Phil. (Department of Art Communication, School of Arts, Southeast University),2005.2-2008.3.
Visiting scholar at the Department of Humanities and Arts, Universityof Texas at Dallas (the USA), 2009.12-2010.12.
Postdoctorate: (School of Architecture, Southeast University, Academician Taining Cheng as supervisor), 2015.10-
Major: Architecture
Staff of LG Electronics Group Co., Ltd, 2002.7-2002.12.
Research Interests
Contemporary Aesthetic Culture, Art Sociology, Artistic Theory
Research Achievements
Took charge of 6 projects supported by the National Social Science Fund, the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund.
Participated in 2 key projects of National Social Science Fund (top 2) and more than 10 projects at provincial and ministerial level.
Published 3 monographs (two as co-author).
Published more than 40 papers, including 21 on the CSSCI journals, 4 on the top-ranked journal of their respective disciplines, 4 were transmitted by Reprinted Materials of Renmin University of China and 1 by Guang Ming Daily.
Representative Achievements
1)Research Projects:
Principal Investigator, “Study of Aesthetic Issues in the Establishment of Major Construction Projects in China.”(Established in 2012, Approval No. 12CZX075). National Social Science Fund project for Youth Scholars.
Principal Investigator, “Ecstasy of Irony: Study of `Internet Sentence Making' from the Perspective of Cultural Psychology.”(Established in 2011, Approval No. 11YJC760026). Social Science Fund Project, Ministry of Education.
Principal Investigator, “Research on Artistic Aesthetics of Romanticism.”(Established in 2009, Approval No. 09WC009). Jiangsu Province Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project.
Co-Investigator, Principal Participant, “Innovative Research on Enterprise Aesthetic Management in China's Economic Transition Period.”(Established in 2010, Approval No. 10AZX006).Key project of the National Social Science Fund.
1)Selected Publications
Monograph:Aesthetic Reflection on Contemporary Architecture. Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing. LTD, August 2016.
Papers:
“Problems and Solutions of Major Construction Projects in China.” Social Science of Beijing. No. 10, 2015.Papertransmitted by Reprinted Materials of Renmin University of China, Aesthetics. No. 12, 2015.
“Controversy of Aesthetic Consciousness in Major Construction Projects.” Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute.No. 4, 2015.
“Re-reading Hoffman in the Context of Romantic Aesthetics.”Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). No. 4, 2016.
“On the Conception of Establishing Aesthetic Economics.”Journal of Southeast University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). No. 2, 2006.Paper transmitted by Reprinted Materials of Renmin University of China, Aesthetics. No.6, 2006. Excerpted by Guangming Daily.
“‘Internet Sentence Making’ and EcstaticChina: An Analysis of Current Cultural Mentality, Trend of Literature and Art and Deep Social Prospects.” Social Science of Beijing. No. 4, 2013.
“Calling for Landmark Works with Deep Aesthetic Connotation.”Art Observation. No. 6, 2014.
“A Dimensional Analysis of the Aesthetic Development of Commercial Space: A Presentation of Aestheticization of Daily Life.” Transactions of Beijing Institute of Technology.No. 5, 2010.
Kang zhang, Xin Ji, Stuart Harrell, “Computational Aesthetics——On Complexity of Computer-Generated Paintings.” Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, 2011(3).
“Review of the New Edition of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism—and Zehou Li’s Inclusion.”Foreign Literature No. 5, 2010.