AbstractAbstract: Xia Jingguan was an important person in circles of Chinese education, academic research, art and literature in the first half of twentieth century. He was a leader in ci circles after Wang Pengyun and Zhu Zumou. This thesis makes a discussion about Xia’s ci writings and ci criticism, whose writings accepted North Song ci writers like Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu and Zhou Bangyan, etc. and whose views about ci poetry advocated “imitating North Song famous ci writers” instead of “beginning from South Song ci writers” suggested by Zhu Zumou and Kuang Zhouyi. He was among the rare ones who were not influenced by Dream Window ci style.
