Li Yafeng, Associate Professor, from the Normal School recently published the title "Personality, Natural Endowment, Scholarship, and the Vicissitudes of Times: Revisiting the Phenomenon of ‘Reversion’ in Wang Kaiyun’s Poetics" in the Important Chinese Journal "Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art" with the first author and Changshu Institute of Technology as the first completion unit. The paper states that “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 kaiyun 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, talent, 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”. Thesis link:

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Paper Title：Personality, Natural Endowment, Scholarship, and the Vicissitudes of Times: Revisiting the Phenomenon of ‘Reversion’ in Wang Kaiyun’s Poetics

Journal：Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Abstract：

The paper states that “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 kaiyun 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, talent, 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”.