Wang Guowei drowned himself in the Summer Palace, shocking the scholarly world.
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culture
Best known for 《人间词话》 ('Poetic Remarks on the Human Condition'), which proposed the famous 三种境界 (sān zhǒng jìngjiè, 'three stages') of pursuing any great endeavor — quoted constantly today in speeches about study, career, and love.
history
He drowned himself in Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in 1927; the reasons remain debated — loyalty to the fallen Qing, despair over modernity, or personal grief — and his death became an emblem of the cultural upheaval of the era.
