Research On "Female Images" In Wang Guowei’s Jen-chien Tz’u

Being a historian, philosopher and literati, Wang Guowei ranked as an leading role in theacademic research history of the early20thcentury. His masterpiece Jen-chien Tz’u-hua,namely the literary comments on Chinese "Ci" Poems, has been the constant heat topic in thewhole academia, which attributed to the fact that his Jen-chien Tz’u, namely his creativeworks of "Ci" Poems, has been an unpopular subject and has even been dwarfed as anextension research of Jen-chien Tz’u-hua. This paper is a real subjectivity study rooted inJen-chien Tz’u itself by employing "Female Images" as the key discourse. And this paperthoroughly classifies and analyzes the types and the features of female images in Jen-chienTz’u, as well as the internal relations and aesthetics effect within the major female imagescombinations. Furthermore, it discusses in detail the unique aesthetics characteristics offemale images and digs into the reasons for Wang Guowei’s preference for female images.Last but not the least, it introduces the several aesthetics functions of female images’ duringthe creator’s aesthetics activities. The aesthetics comprehension on Jen-chien Tz’u via"Female Images" serves not only as a breakthrough in researches on Wang’s creative works,but also as an enlightenment for establishing a scientific system of literary theories.The exordium of the paper supplies a research overview and illustrates the necessity tocarry out a subjectivity study of Jen-chien Tz’u via the perspective of image by displays thedeficiencies of current researches. Then it explains and defines the core concept of "FemaleImages" on the level of aesthetics through clarifying the concept of "image" first.The first chapter of the paper is a general view of female images in Jen-chien Tz’u, whichfalls into two sections including the types of female image and its combinations. The firstsection classfies ten categories of female images based on specific features and emotionexpressions:"Lovesick Women","Spoony Girls","Beauty","Teenage Girls","VirtuousWomen","Deceased Wife","Women Leaning on Balustrade","Women Living in Palace","Devoted Wife and Mother " and "Mythological Women". Then the second sectionrespectively illuminates the four combinations with the creator’s intentional consciousness:The combinations of "Female Images" with "Dream Images","Candles Images","NaturalImages" and "Male Images".The second chapter is an aesthetic research on female images in Jen-chien Tz’u, which isdivided into two parts of the uniqueness and the reasons for female images adopted in Jen-chien Tz’u. The former discusses its uniqueness via an analysis of the abstractingfemale figures, the theoretical tendency during the image construction, the inconsistent femaleconsciousness and the philosophic thinking within female images. The latter elaborates on theeffects of family, creation intentions, psychology and social culture which accounted forWang’s preference for female images.The third chapter probes into the aesthetics functions of female images in Jen-chien Tz’u,Which is comprised of three aspects: The first part expounds the female images that serve asindividual emotion carrier; The second part expatiates on the female images that serve as theincarnation for noble mind; The last one makes an exposition of the contemplation on lifefrom the female perspective.