武田泰淳是一位有着浓厚中国情结的文人,一生中撰写了大量研究中国文化、文学的学术作品,创作了许多涉及中国或中国人的中国题材小说。日本评论家川西正明指出,没有这些作品,“近代日本的中国 Takeda Takeda is a literary man with a strong Chinese complex. In his life, he wrote a large number of academic works on Chinese culture and literature and created many Chinese novels involving Chinese or Chinese people. Japanese critic Masaaki Kawai pointed out that without these works, ”Modern Japan’s China."