Chapter 96 Words

It is the most valued work among Wang Guowei's writings on literary criticism. It is a comment on old Chinese literature from a new perspective after accepting the baptism of Western aesthetics, but he also cast off the constraints of Western theories. , trying to use his own ideas and insights, trying to integrate some important concepts in Western thought into traditional Chinese criticism. This work is full of incisive epigrams: The most well-known of the words is this passage: