The Thought Origin of Kang Youwei's Stele Theory

Author: Lu Fusheng
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: As is well known, Kang Youwei was the leader of the famous and far-reaching Wuxu Reform Movement in modern Chinese history and the leader of the bourgeois reform movement. All his thoughts revolved around "reform and renewal," and the theory of evolution had become the core of his ideology. His "Broad Boat of Art and Calligraphy" (Guang Yi Zhou Shuang Ji) calligraphy theory on epigraphs was also a product of Western evolutionary theory. Kang Youwei's epigraph theory possessed both a macro-theoretical perspective and a profound understanding of the self-development characteristics of Qing Dynasty calligraphy, all of which stemmed from the evolutionary historical view.