A Comparison Between Chinese and Western Sculpture

The sculptures of China and Western countries are the results of two different types of civilization. China belongs to the continent of East Asia, where high mountains, trackless deserts and uncharted oceans isolated it from other civilizations for many hundreds of years.
Since the time of ancient Greece, the classical aesthetics of the West have, in general, followed a system of formal objectivism. Artistic beauty is a harmony between the whole and its parts, the proportional equilibrium between one part and another, and the balance of opposite elements such as big and small, high and low, as well as strong and weak. It is