潘光旦的科举研究特色

Features of PAN Guang-dan′s Imperial Examination Research

潘光旦站在学术研究的立场上,实事求是地研究科举史。他在科举研究中一以贯之以人文主义的优生学思想,强调科举制度的人文选择功能。他的科举研究运用现代家谱分析法和社会统计方法,注重对家谱和硃卷等文献的开发。这些具有开创性的科举研究特色对终结盲目批判科举的时代、对在科举研究中更广泛和深入地运用现代相关学科的理论和研究方法、对更广泛和深入地开发科举文献,有很重要的启发。

PAN Guang-dan holds the stand of academic research, researching imperial examination history with the spirit of seeking truth from facts. He fills humanistic eugenics thought in his imperial examination research, highlighting humanistic selective function of imperial examination system. He uses modern genealogic analysis and social statistic approach in his imperial examination research, laying emphasis on the development of imperial examination documents, such as ＂zhujuan＂, etc. These pioneering features are of important significance for ending the blindness in imperial examination criticism, developing theory and research of modern relevant disciplines and developing examination documents more extensively and more intensively.