Abstract
Wang Guowei's theory about the poetic states of being "veiled (ge) and unveiled (buge)" derives from Schopenhauer's distinction between concept and intuition as well as the traditional dualistic antithesis of rationality and emotion of modern Western aesthetics. This paper argues that Wang's theory is displaced from and contradicted with the critical paradigm of "Fu-Bi-Xing (straightforward narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)" in Chinese ancient poetics. Due to this displacement and contradiction, Wang Guowei regards Bi and Xing as "the veiled". The rupture inherent in Wang Guowei's poetics has long been overlooked and his theory of "artistic conception" has been treated as a fusion of Chinese and Western aesthetics. Moreover, critics have utilized the Western poetic categories such as "image" to interpret and reconstruct Chinese ancient poetics, claiming that it is a "modern interpretation" of Chinese ancient poetics. This methodology overshadows and oppresses some of the most significant spirits and values in traditional poetics and thus requires some serious reflections on our part.
First Page
57
Last Page
66
Recommended Citation
Luo, Gang. 2013. ""Return What is China’s to China": A Contrapuntal Reading of "the Veiled and the Unveiled" and "Fu, Bi, Xing"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (2): pp.57-66. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss2/2
