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

Research Interests:    

Modern Aesthetics, Analytic Aesthetics and Cultural Studies ， 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 (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2010).  

3． Yin Manting, “The Gaps and the Crisis of Identity in Urban Space”, Culture Studies (China), Vol. 10 (2010): 111-16.  

4． __________“The Construction of the Utopia in the Institution of Modern Art”, Tianjing Social Sciences, No.4 (2010): 115-19.  

5． __________ The Submitting of the Artwork Status and the Contemporary Turning of Western Aesthetics, Social Sciences in Nanjing, NO.10 (2009): 29-34.  

6． __________ The Weak Degree of Institutionalization of the Artworlds and its Possibility in Modern Aesthetics, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, No.4 (2009): 39-43.  

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)