Zhu Guangqian. A famous modern Chinese esthetician and professor, he served as the president and honorary president of the All-China Aesthetics Society. The pen name is Meng Shi, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1922. In 1925, he went to study at the University of Edinburgh, the University of London, the University of Paris and the University of Strasbourg in France, and received master's and doctorate degrees.

After returning to China in 1933, he successively taught at Peking University, Sichuan University, Wuhan University and other universities, engaging in the teaching and research of literature and aesthetics. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been teaching at Peking University.

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Zhu Guangqian is the author of "Tragic Psychology", "Literary Psychology", "Talk about Beauty", "Schools of Abnormal Psychology", "Poetic Theory", " "On Literature", "Review of Croce's Philosophy", "History of Western Aesthetics" (two volumes), and translated Hegel's "Aesthetics" and Vico's "New Science" aesthetic masterpieces.

Zhu Guangqian's early aesthetic thoughts mainly accepted the influence of Kant and Croce, and supported the disinterested view of aesthetics. He believed that aesthetics is "the intuition of form" that is "free from will and abstract thinking" ("Talk about Beauty" page 10). His debut novel "Speechless Beauty" clearly points out that there are two attitudes towards life: one is "detaching from reality" and the other is "conquering reality".