Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- China and Its Communication with the World through Arts-Based Education in International Contexts -- Reframing the Arts and Creativity in Chinese Education / Tatiana Chemi , Lihong Wang and Xiangyun Du -- Intercultural Learning, Undergraduate Ethnomusicology Courses, and Postcolonialism / Derrick Tu -- Eurasian Theatre and the Pedagogy of Actor / Pierangelo Pompa and Tatiana Chemi -- Chinese Calligraphy Teaching in Non-Chinese Contexts / Lei Ma -- Embodied Learning / Tatiana Chemi and Pierangelo Pompa -- Write Your Name / Beili Xiang -- The Development of Arts Education in China -- Children’s Art as Creative Interpretations of the World / Yanjie Yang -- Action Research for the Integration of Folk Handicraft into the Kindergarten Curriculum / Di Wang -- Development and Current Status of Art Education in China / Yanjie Yang -- A Comparative Study on Early Childhood Art Curriculum between Korea and China / Xiaohua Li -- Overview on the Evaluation of Children’s Art Education / Chen Huangchao -- Back Matter -- Index.

Core texts addressing creativity in a number of contexts show that creativity as a scientific subject has received principally the attention of Western scholars. Is this due to the fact that Western cultures are more creative or sensitive to creativity than the Eastern cultures? The editors strongly believe that this is more due to the differences in understanding and practising creativity in the West and East than to an Eastern indifference to creativity. Arts-Based Education: China and Its Intersection with the World investigates the field of arts-based educational practices and research. It argues that reflections on these themes must necessarily be reframed and re-read beyond the limits of colonialist oppositions and suggests a constructive and reflexive approach to theory and methodology, which takes into account intercultural and critical perspectives in these studies. This volume is the tangible product of the acknowledgement that China and Chinese culture deserves a more systematic and up-to-date dissemination through recent studies that bring together the arts, learning and creativity. It is clustered around two themes: (1) China and its communication with the world through arts-based education in international contexts, and (2) the development of arts education in China.