This poetic essay by Ernest Fenollosa was created around 1908, the year of death of the American cultural philosopher and passionate Orientalist. Published in 1918 by Ezra Pound with a foreword, it was first translated by Eugen Gomringer in 1972 and released in the series Art and Environment. The aim was to explore the language and spirit of the much too little-known Chinese culture, of which knowledge in the West is still as poor today as it was then. However, Fenollosa does not provide a sinological study that could meet philological standards, but rather nothing less than a highly stimulating foundation for any aesthetics.