人間詞話
Poetic Remarks in the Human World
Wang Guowei 王國維 · 1877 – 1927
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In brief numbered notes on ci lyrics, Wang Guowei joins the old shihua form to ideas met in Kant and Schopenhauer and puts one term, jingjie, the world a poem opens, at the centre. His judgments of poets are sharp and personal. Small as it is, it became the most widely read work of Chinese criticism of the last century.