"He is the unparalleled and purest master of Chinese studies. No one has any doubt about this. " Wang Guowei also voted the most by netizens.
among professional scholars, it goes without saying that Wang Guowei's academic status is excellent. His knowledge is extensive and profound, and he writes widely in Japanese, English and French. He has made great contributions to the study of philosophy, literature, history of traditional Chinese opera, ancient Oracle bone inscriptions, history of Yin and Zhou dynasties, Han and Jin wooden slips, Han and Wei stone inscriptions, history of Han and Tang dynasties, Dunhuang documents, northwest geography, Mongolian history, Yuan history, library management, edition bibliography and other disciplines.
Chen Yinque once summed up Wang Guowei's three pioneering works with great academic influence, namely, "taking the underground objects and the legacy on paper to explain each other's evidence", "taking the ancient books of foreign countries to supplement each other's evidence" and "taking foreign ideas and inherent materials to refer to each other's evidence". Wang Guowei directly created a generation of academics and style of study.
and these alone are not enough to make Wang Guowei enter the public eye.
On June 2, 1927, Wang Guowei drowned in Kunming Lake. What is the cause of death? In the past 1 years, there have been various opinions in academic circles, but they have never been solved, which has become the "century mystery of China's cultural history". This obviously has an indescribable appeal to the public. With the spread of media and books, Wang Guowei's last words are "fifty years, only one death is needed." After this world change, there is no more humiliation "has also become a familiar sentence for many people."
His most well-known work is Ci Hua on Earth. For example, the first edition of Illustrated Words on Earth published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House was published in January 24, and it was the seventh printing in two years from January 26. And the number of this printing alone reached as many as 3 thousand copies. This has not counted the various versions of Ci Hua on Earth published by different publishing houses since the 198s. This is a real bestseller that can be reprinted continuously, and almost all liberal arts students have one.
Wang Guowei's "Three Realms" mentioned in "Tales on Earth" has been repeatedly quoted by various media and articles, and the public is already familiar with its name and this passage, although they may not know what Wang Guowei has studied at all.