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Wang Guowei

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Wang Guowei
Wang Guowei Monument.jpg
The Monument of Wang Guowei in Tsinghua University
Born2 December 1877
Haining, ZhejiangQing China
Died2 June 1927 (aged 49)
Kunming LakeSummer Palace,BeijingChina
Cause of deathSuicide by drowning
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.
Wang Guowei
Traditional Chinese王國維
Simplified Chinese王国维

Wang Guowei (Chinese王國維; 2 December 1877 – 2 June 1927), courtesy name Jing'an (靜安) or Boyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet. A versatile and original scholar, he made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory.

Biography[edit]

A native of HainingZhejiang, he went to Shanghai to work as a proofreader for a newspaper, after failing to pass the Imperial Examination in his hometown, at the age of 22. There he studied in the Dongwen Xueshe (東文學社), a Japanese languageteaching school, and became a protégé of Luo Zhenyu. Sponsored by Luo, he left for Japan in 1901, studying natural sciences inTokyo. Back in China one year later, he began to teach in different colleges, and devoted himself to the study of German idealism. He fled to Japan with Luo when the Xinhai Revolution took place in 1911. He returned to China in 1916, but remained loyal to the overthrown Manchu emperor. In 1924, he was appointed professor by the Tsinghua University, where he was known as one of the "Four Great Tutors," along with the prominent Chinese scholars Liang QichaoChen Yinke, and Y. R. Chao.

In 1927, Wang drowned himself in Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace before the revolutionary army entered Beijing.[1][2]

Chen Yinque's epitaph read: "The suicide of Wang was because he worried about losing the independent spirit and free thought he long cherished in his academic pursuit." [3]

Legacy[edit]

Wang focused on the studies of Chinese vernacular literature during the early year of his career. When he became convinced that Schopenhauer's metaphysics were not believable, he turned for solace to critical and philological studies of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber, as well as writing a concise history of the theaters of the Song andYuan dynasties.[4] Although its conclusions are controversial, his article on A Dream of the Red Chamber" has been called "a monumental development in the history of modern Chinese criticism." [5] Later he changed his academic direction, focusing on philology and ancient history. His works on ancient history and philology are collected inGuantang Jilin (觀堂集林).

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Bonney, Joey (1986). Wang Kuo-wei: an intellectual biography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-94594-8.
  2. Jump up^ Cheng, Zhongying; Nicholas Bunnin (2002). Contemporary Chinese PhilosophyBlackwell Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 0-631-21725-8.
  3. Jump up^ "Humanities reborn at Tsinghua". China Daily. 2003-12-30. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  4. Jump up^ Benjamin Schwartz, "Themes in intellectual history: May Fourth and After," Cambridge History of China Volume 12 Republican China 1912-1949 Pt 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 418
  5. Jump up^ Q.S. Tong and X. Zhou, "Criticism and Society: The Birth of the Modern Critical Subject in China," Boundary 2 29.1 (2002): 153-176. Hong Kong University Handle

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