Social Class: Tsinghua Art Teacher Clicks With Online Learners

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A Tsinghua University academic has earned an online following for her one-minute clips that introduce complicated art and design concepts in plain language. By Beijing Youth Daily “Which has more aesthetic value: an imperial garden or Disneyland?” Nie Ying, an associate professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, poses the question to a classroom of nearly 200 art design students in a short video shared on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. In addition to the robust in-class discussion that followed on the day, the 59-second clip also inspired some 5,000 online viewers to weigh in on the conversation. “Aesthetic appreciation is immaterial,” wrote one netizen after watching the video. “Disney and its subsequent associated profits constitute a departure from the essence of its parks’ aesthetics. There’s no way to compare it to an imperial garden because the original intentions of the two constructions were fundamentally different.” Another suggested that it would b ………………………………