Abstract
"Reversion" used to be hailed as a pure "Chinese phenomenon", but its richness and complexity have not been effectively revealed yet, which has seriously affected our in-depth understanding of it. Take Wang Kaiyuan as an example. His poetics of "reversion" had profound spiritual connotation, which implied his original comprehension of poetry, his political ideal of "Entering the Holy Land through Zhuangzi" and "Self-government with Propriety"; it also presented Wang's distinct personality in his stance, method, and object regarding "reversion". The formation of such "reversion" phenomenon was both closely related to Wang's personality, talents, scholarship, as well as the vicissitudes of time. It fully demonstrated the complexity of the "reversion" phenomenon in China and the internal contradiction in the culture of "reversion".
First Page
120
Last Page
127
Recommended Citation
Li, Yafeng. 2020. "Personality, Natural Endowment, Scholarship, and the Vicissitudes of Time: Revisiting the Phenomenon of "Reversion" in Wang Kaiyun's Poetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.120-127. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/15
