赛珍珠研究的回顾与展望

中国学术界对赛珍珠的研究大致可分为初始期、低落期和恢复发展期.在赛珍珠的研究中,学术界普遍关注的问题是赛珍珠促进了中国文化的传播与东西文化的交流、对赛珍珠作品所反映中国现状的评价、关于赛珍珠的文化取向、赛珍珠的文学创作思想等问题.近70年来,对赛珍珠的研究已超越了文学范畴,今后应进一步挖掘材料,更新观念,从史学角度作细致的探讨.

Retrospect and Prospect of the Research on Pearl S. Buck

The research conducted by China's academic circles on Ms. Pearl S. Buck can be generally divided into three periods, namely, the beginning, the ebbing, and the recovering and developing periods. In the researches on Pearl S. Buck, the problems generally talked about by academic circles are: Pearl promoted the propagation of Chinese culture and the exchange between the culture of the East and that of the West, the appraisal of the conditions of China that were described in the works of Pearl S. Buck, her cultural orientation and thought of literary creation, and the character and behaviour of the person of Pearl S. Buck. In the recent seventy years, the research on Ms. Pearl S. Buck has surpassed the realm of literature. Later on, it is necessary to dig up more materials, to renew our views, and to conduct detailed exploration about Pearl S. Buck from the angle of history.