Preliminary Probe into QIAN Zhongshu’s Literary Viewpoint

This investigation of QIAN Zhongshu’s academic thought and literary viewpoint is based on the academic tendency of QIAN’s Tan Yi Lu and Guan Zhui Pian. This article points out that QIAN’s literary viewpoint is diversified and profound, changing all the time. But one thing is constant: his literary viewpoint has a tendency of artistic ontology. This tendency originated from the Russian formalism literary theory in the early 1900s and neo-criticism in Britain and America. QIAN developed his viewpoint on the basis of them.