中国美学史的撰写是随着20世纪80年代美学的升温而起步的。80年代初,学界围绕青年马克思时期的作品《1844年经济学哲学手稿》,集中探讨美的本质问题。李泽厚的“实践美学”在论辩中脱颖而出,并于1984年率先出版了由他和刘纲纪主编的《中国美学史》第1卷。这本书吸收了美学大讨论的 The writing of the history of Chinese aesthetics started with the rise of aesthetics in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, the academic circle concentrated on the essence of the United States by focusing on the work of the young Marxist manuscript Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Li Zehou’s “Practical Aesthetics” stood out from the argument and took the lead in publishing the first volume of “History of Chinese Aesthetics,” edited by him and Liu Gangji in 1984. This book absorbs the aesthetic discussion