Seven Lectures on Wang Guowei’s Renjian Cihua

Renjian cihua is a masterpiece of literary criticism written by Wang Guowei (1877–1927), a scholar of the Chinese classics who lived during the late Qing and early Republican periods. Since its publication in 1908 and 1909, it has been one of the most influential academic works in China. Elegantly written, Wang’s set of "remarks on ci poetry" ( cihua ) retains a traditional Chinese impressionistic critical approach, and can present difficulties to the common reader. This set of lectures by Flore