Yin Manting, born at Yangzhou of Jiangsu in 1975, professor of Philosophy Department, Nanjing University. The Master of Arts of the Nanjing University, the literature Doctor of the Nanjing University.

Research Interests: Philosophy of Art, Visual Studies, Analytic Aesthetics and Sociology of Religion

Recent Publications:

1． Yin Manting, The Construction of the Artworld Theories and its Modern Significance (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2009).

2． Noël Carroll, Theories of Art Today, translated by Yin Manting and Zheng Congrong (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2010).

3． Yin Manting, “From What Is Art to Definition of Art: Approaches, Goals and Modern Solutions”, Journal of Capital Normal University ( Social Sciences Edition), No. 5(2022): 36-47.

4．“Social Participation in Aesthetic Education and the Reshaping of Aesthetic Experience”, Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, No.2 (2023): 116-24.

5． “A Study of Pictorial Representation under the Impact of Direct Perception Theory”, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, NO.2 (2022): 75-84.

Complete list of publications available upon request.

Foundations

1． On Modern Turn of the Post-Analytic Aesthetics and its Significance， Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China, 2009, project leader.

2． Foundation for Key Teacher by Nanjing University, 2009.

3. “Research On the Turn from Pictorial Representation to Visual Representation under the Perspective of Analytic Aesthetics”, General Program of National Social Science Foundation of China, 2015, project leader.

4． “Visual Culture and the Social Transformation in Contemporary China,”Key projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research supported by Ministry of Education, 2012, sub-project leader.

Honors: Second Prize for Research Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences (Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, 2010)