Biography of Wang Guowei

Author: Chen Hongxiang
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Publishing Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book presents a fresh humanistic perspective and a profound historical touch, recreating the era's turmoil and vicissitudes experienced by Wang Guowei during his "fifty years" from the broad background of the turn of the centuries. It documents how Wang Guowei, starting as a "scholar" and a humble commoner from a poor family in the late Qing Dynasty, achieved the status of a master who integrated Eastern and Western thought and mastered both ancient and modern studies through "independent learning." It also combines macro and micro perspectives to comprehensively and thoroughly showcase him as a pioneer of new literary theory, a founder of new historiography, and one of the "Four Masters of Oracle Bone Studies" and the "Four Masters of Tsinghua," making significant contributions to modern Chinese culture and academia. Additionally, it reveals his pursuit, distress, contradictions, and vacillations in the great transition from monarchy to republic, and his tragic end through "suicide." This book is based on the author's dedicated research into Wang's life and academic achievements, as well as his numerous monographs, and incorporates the latest domestic and international findings. It is the first grand and dramatic "complete biography" of Wang since his death nearly 80 years ago.