Wen Yiduo · Seeking the Optimal Point in Time and Space

Author: Liu Jiemin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The development and significance of modern Chinese literature in the 20th century provide an overall landscape of mutual exchange, penetration, and resonance between Chinese and Western cultures. Against the backdrop of the global trend of multicultural development in the contemporary world, this book conducts a relatively comprehensive study of Wen Yiduo. It explores Wen Yiduo's academic life, from his hometown to Tsinghua, from China to abroad, from poet to scholar, from cultural studies to real struggles, from his traditional cultural cultivation to the influence of Western modern culture, from his emotional experience with Chinese and Western cultures to cultural reflection, critique, rejection, and construction. It reveals the inner journey of a generation of intellectuals in the process of modernizing Chinese culture. On this basis, the book examines Wen Yiduo's modern interpretation of traditional culture, his absorption of the experiences and lessons of Western culture, his efforts to seek common aesthetic grounds within the laws of beauty, and his contributions to building a new culture for the future world.