The Comparison of WU Mi and WANG Guowei's Tragedy Study on A Dream of Red Mansions

It is Wang Guowei,who first began to study the tragedy story,A Dream of Red Mansions,by western literary theory instead of traditional Chinese way of literary criticism,which also enriched the connotation of the book.Another author,WuMi,adopted a comparative criticism as well in his Red New Talk.Their study were not only the top level in that era,but also full of academic value today.Both of them consider A Dream of Red Mansions a great tragedy.The paper tries to compare the comparative perspective,critic view and comparison from their comments of A Dream of Red Mansions.