GAO Jianping

Gao Jianping is a professor at the Institute of Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Shenzhen University, and research fellow at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He currently serves as the president of the Chinese Society
for Aesthetics and the Society for the Chinese and International Theories for Literature and Art and served was president of International Association for Aesthetics in 2013–16. He is the author of The Expressive Act in Chinese Art: From Calligraphy to Painting (1996) and Aesthetics and Art: Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective (2019).