In this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang’s intimate, thirty-year personal and professional association with the well-known Chinese scholar Lo Chen-yü (1866-1940) and provides a most comprehensive and compelling account of her biographee’s posthumously controversial career in the years following the 1911 Revolution.
Pursuing her subject across the whole spectrum of his many scholarly interests, Bonner critically examines Wang’s essays on German philosophy and philosophical aesthetics; his poetry, literary criticism, and aesthetic theory; and his works on ancient Chinese history, particularly of the Shang dynasty. Insightfully relating his strenuous intellectual search in the fields of philosophy, literature, and history to his very personal quest for truth, beauty, and virtue, Bonner shows in this finely crafted book how Wang’s unhappiness in later life as well as his suicide can be understood only within the context of his humanistic concerns in general and his extreme commitment in the postimperial period to the Confucian ethicoreligious tradition in particular. Without compromising the clearheaded critical detachment that characterizes her analysis of the intricacies of his thought, Bonner has produced a portrait of Wang Kuo-wei suffused with warmth and sympathetic respect.
2 有用 余尔游 2021-11-24 20:56:43
哈佛东亚研究书系之101,作者Jony Bonner的博士毕业论著,应该是英语世界唯一一本王国维传记。透过西方人的眼睛看先生生平及其所处的时代,会有别开生面的视野。开篇以时代背景及先生早年经历入笔,中间重点在intellectual一词,宏观总结并简要评述了先生在教育学、哲学、红学、诗词创作及批评、美学、元曲、考古、历史学等方面的建树及主要观点,结尾处讲先生晚年及生平定论。先生学问太大,本书已带普... 哈佛东亚研究书系之101,作者Jony Bonner的博士毕业论著,应该是英语世界唯一一本王国维传记。透过西方人的眼睛看先生生平及其所处的时代,会有别开生面的视野。开篇以时代背景及先生早年经历入笔,中间重点在intellectual一词,宏观总结并简要评述了先生在教育学、哲学、红学、诗词创作及批评、美学、元曲、考古、历史学等方面的建树及主要观点,结尾处讲先生晚年及生平定论。先生学问太大,本书已带普及性了,但知识方面的阅读难度不小,notes快占三分之一篇幅。总之,是一部内容严谨扎实但表达简洁易懂的学术传记。ps:中国古代近代的学问,被英语paraphase后,就变得通俗平白的样子,不过似乎总会丢掉一点东西。 (展开)
0 有用 桑拿 2025-11-17 23:37:48 美国
补录。