“亚东本”《红楼梦》:现代阅读传播的一个缩影

A Dream of Red Mansions Published by Oriental Book Company as Epitome of Modern Reading and Circulation of This Romance

"亚东本"《红楼梦》作为胡适"新红学"的"样版本",在20世纪20至40年代大量刊印,改变了现代读者阅读《红楼梦》的文本来源。"亚东本"《红楼梦》的受宠,对现代读者阅读时的知识吸收与阅读趣味产生了深远的影响,现代读者的《红楼梦》阅读在一定程度上受到胡适"新红学"观点的左右。同时,现代知识阶层在阅读"亚东本"《红楼梦》后将不同的认识和理解诉诸报刊,又扩大了"新红学"的传播范围。这表明时人开始将"亚东本"《红楼梦》当作一种典型的文化符号来寻求公共政治表达,最终在全社会范围内探寻彼时社会发展所需要的文化话语建构模式。"亚东本"《红楼梦》与胡适"新红学"观点在现代读者阅读过程中的双向互动,导致胡适寻求学术意见的公共表达与现代读者发表个体见解相交织,最终成为《红楼梦》现代阅读传播的一个缩影。

As a model of Hu Shi’s xin hong xue(new studies of The Dream of Red Mansions),the Yadong version of The Dream of Red Mansions published by The Oriental Book Company was printed many times in 1920 s-40 s of the 20 th century,thus making it possible for readers to have more versions of the book.With its popularity in the book market,this new version just kept under its sway readers’absorption of knowledge and reading enjoyment,which can be said that it was Hu Shi’s xin hong xue that had profound influence upon readers’reading of The Dream of Red Mansions.Scholars published their thoughts on the Yadong version of the book,leaving the new studies of The Dream of Red Mansions more circulated.This showed people at that time began to take this version of the book as a typical cultural symbol to seek public political expression,so that the whole society was try to explore the cultural discourse and its construction model necessary to the social development at the time.The two-way interaction between Hu Shi’s studies and readers’personal opinions of the book helped a lot spread the popularity of the book--A Dream of Red Mansions.