A New Annotation Of Guya

Wang guo-wei was the first Chinese scholar introducing the Western philosophy and aesthetics systematically. During his short career of Western translations, he recreated many critical conceptions about Chinese literatures and arts, and most of them have both western and eastern backgrounds. according to Kant and Schopenhauer , Wang guo-wei recreated guya as an critical conception to Chinese arts works. Although guya has long been used in traditional arts criticism, It is Wang guo-wei who made a great contribution to let it fully revealed.Most of recent studies are exclusively on the field of philosophy, aesthetics, almost none of any scholars research it from art history .thus this essay intends to fill this blank .