The Monument of Rhetoric in China in the 20th Century——the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the General Discourse of Rhetoric;

With the theory and method of rhetorical aesthetics to analyze the tautological phenomenon in the View of Father′s Back the author discovers the deep implication in it.

A remarkable scene in aesthetics in 1990 s is the argument between practical aesthetics and post-practice aesthetics, and the emergence of rhetorical aesthetics and negative aesthetics.

This article, against the knowledge background of four comprehensive survey works, Jiang(1985), Zhou(1998), Liao(1999),Liu(2001), and based on an amount of literature review; induces three themes of the cotemporary studies on rhetoric of "Ma s Theory of Word", including all kinds of achievements in the field of micro-rhetoric, theoretical rhetoric and applied rhetoric.

This paper deals with problems as highlighting, borrowing, collection, explanation, evaluation and application of examples in rhetoric study and rhetorical works in the form of dialogue.