Baihua Poetics from 1917 through the 1920s: A Background 32 Fei Ming's Criticism of New Poetry 37 Fantasy and Dream: Fei Ming's Lay Conceptions of Imagination 39 Ālayavijñāna: A Buddhist View of Imagination and the Universe 46 The Mirror and Painting an Empty Flower: The Dialectics of Representational lllusoriness and Reality 51 The Theoretical Significance of Fei Ming's Aesthetic of Representation: A Conclusion 58 Poems in Chinese 63 Glossary 64 Bibliography 65