The Study On Wang Guowei's Aesthetic Reading List

Today many researchers have retrospected to Liang Qichao,Wang Guowei,ZhangTaiyan during the preceding century in the becoming of modern Chinese literarytheory.Because these researchers thought the starting point of the modern literary should findfrom the situation of literary transform and thought information since the late QingDynasty.While those masters of national literature stood on the precursory thought circlewere founders of that situation and information.As the key to modern Chinese aesthetic,Wang Guowei,who choose and read for the western aesthetic paper must reflect the earlystyle of the integration in western aesthetic and Chinese aesthetic.To outline the readinghistory will help us to realize the historical context on the situation of late Qing Dynastyopening and the track of western aesthetic to China.The period from 1877 to 1901 was Wang Guowei's youth reading time and academicchoice time.Due to the traditional initiating teaching and reading experience,whichcontributed stability foundation to coordinate classical Chinese literature heritage used thewestern aesthetic.Since Chinese-Japanese War in 1894,Wang Guowei had contacted westernculture completely.By making his choice,he choose the western aesthetic as his academicpoint finally.Since 1901 Wang Guowei went back to China from Japan to 1907,that period was theimportant time to read and write aesthetic text for himself.In 1902 and 1903 Wang Guoweiread western philosophy,aesthetic,ethnics,psychology literature and so on. He paid moreattention to the Schopenhauer's philosophy and aesthetic.Wang Guowei began to write andpublish some thesis to expatiate his own aesthetic theory base on a great deal philosophy andaesthetic theory,this is the effective history stage.From 1908,Wang Guowei paid his attention to literature and operas.He skip over thewestern culture to go to the Chinese tradition from 1908 to 1912.All his academic activitieswere base on Chinese traditional culture from form to content.But during the period oftransition from western to China,Wang Guowei's article still kept the mark of western culturedeeply.After Xin-Hai Revolution Wang Guowei went to Japan with his family,thence,he studied Chinese culture with great concentration,there was not western aesthetic articleany more.To summarize and research on Wang Guowei's reading history,we could discover thatWang Guowei's aesthetic marked the tenor deviated Chinese traditional aesthetic towards towestern and modern.His aesthetic thought was a sign that the classical Chinese aesthetic wasfinished and the modern Chinese aesthetic was began.