《中国文学史新著》与《剑桥中国文学史》比较研究

早在19世纪末,西方学者便开始了对中国文学史的书写。20世纪初,林传甲和黄人分别编写《中国文学史》,拉开了中国学者撰写本国文学史的序幕。迄今为止,学界已有数百本中国文学史著述问世。中国学者所著文学史,在文学理念、编写模式和文体分类等方面一直深受西方汉学界的影响,但随着近年来研究思路的改变和学术水平的提升,已经呈现出由整体“趋同”向“趋异”转变的走势。《中国文学史新著》与《剑桥中国文学史》这两部文学史著作,便充分体现了当代中国文学史的书写在中西方的差异。

A Comparative Study of New History Chinese Literature and The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

Early in the end of 19th century, western scholars started to write the history of Chinese literature. In the beginning of 20th century, Lin Chuanjia and Huang Ren receptively composed a book both titled The history of Chinese literature, who have become the Chinese forerunners of the composition of the Chinese literary history. There have been so far hundreds of academic writings of the Chinese history of literature available. Such books written by Chinese scholars, in certain respects such as concepts, writing patterns and the classification of genres, are greatly influenced by Sinologists. However, with the changes of academic thinking and the progress of research recently, quite a few Chinese scholars＇ books have shown a tendency from ＂convergence＂ towards ＂divergence＂. The variance between the New History Chinese Literature and the Cambridge History of Chinese Literature fully embodies the different ways of writing the history of Chinese literature between east and west.