From Xiong Shili to Xu Fuguan: Location of Literature and Art as for Human Mind

Although Xiong Shili's ambition is to illuminate the Confucian learning, the poetic dimension is rarely found in his scholarship. But this should not be considered as a consequential phenomenon according to the logic of Modern New-Confucianism. Different from Xiong, Xu Fuguan is interested in literature and art owing to his experiential character;at the same time he tries to set up his intellectual system on the root of human mind by way of carrying on the creative idea of his mentor.