红学与“e考据”的“二重奏”——读黄一农《二重奏:红学与清史的对话》

Redology And Duet Of E-Textual Criticism—On Yi-long Huang's A Dialogue Between Redology And History Of The Qing Dynasty

黄一农先生的《二重奏——红学与清史的对话》运用"e考据"方法考证红学史的若干重要问题,并进而提出用"e考据"推动红学史乃至文史研究范式转换的观点,在材料发掘、史事考据与学术方法论上均有重要创新。本文立足于传统文史之学的立场,认为"e考据"的主要优点在于能够全面挖掘材料,完成高效考据,但当下其方法效度存在局限性,仅属技术手段的革新,尚不能臻及"范式转换"之境。在红学领域来看,黄著能够正视《红楼梦》研究中考据与索隐、真实与虚构的关系,立论较为平正可据。但黄著并未能彻底重新反思红学的现有框架与前提假设,因此也就难以彻底解决"新红学"的范式困境。在此基础上本文认为,大数据背景下结合"互文"理论形成的"e互文"研究路径,作为"数字人文"与"传统笺注"之结合点,可能成为"e考据"的进阶表现形式。

In his book A Dialogue Between Redology And History Of The Qing Dynasty, Yi-long Huang made a textual research on some important issues about redology by way of e-textual criticism. He pro posed to use e-textual criticism for the transformation of redology as well as literary and historical research, which is an important innovation in material finding, historical event research, and academic methodolgy. This paper, starting from traditional literary and historical studies, maintains that the advantage of e-textual criticism lies in digging out all the related materials and making a highly efficient textual research. But it a technical innovation rather than a transition of paradigm, having limitations in methodological validity. Viewing from redology, Huang dealt properly with the relationship between textual research and index, between reality and virtuality, fairly and evidently. But Huang failed to challenge the existing framework and presupposition, and failed to settle the paradigm in redology. This paper maintains that in the era of big data e-inter-text research path might become the upgrade of e- textual criticism, being a joint point of digital humanities and notes and commentaries of traditional texts.