Duan Qirui (1865–1936), a famous politician in early twentieth century, was the author of Zhengdaoju ji. This anthology of selected poems and essays is rarely known and read nowadays, due to time and political factors. With the focus on Zhengdaoju ji, this article explores the aim of worldly concerns in these works. As Duan emphasized that all the poems and essays included were beneficial to the conscience as pertains to the world, we infer that its worldly concerns include two implications: (1) sentiments on the past and present, and (2) propositions about education and politics. After examining the editions and contents of Duan’s anthology, this article successively examines how the aim of his worldly concerns is presented through the themes of the two aforesaid implications.