In ancient China, there was no such subject as aesthetics. As an academic discipline, aesthetics was introduced into China from Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. This fact does not mean that Chinese aesthetics did not have its own history before modem Chinese scholars heard of word “aesthetics” and referred to it by the Chinese term meixue. Just as the history of western aesthetics is presumed to begin with Socrates or Plato rather than with Baumgarten, we may contend that the history of Chinese aesthetics commenced with the works of Confucius or Laozi rather than those of modern philosophers on this subject. This begin the case, was aesthetics merely a word introduced into China in the early 20th century, or did it imply the establishment of a totally fresh discipline? To put it in others way, did the word “aesthetics”, since its introduction into China, bring about any substantial transformation in the corresponding field of academic research in the Chinese context? Or, given the fact that aesthetics is an academic discipline originated from the West, can one argue that there are no particular Chinese issues to be studied in aesthetics? It seems to me that the only way to examine this problem is to return to the question: “what is Chinese aesthetics?”