论日本早期中国文学研究的核心理念

Core Ideology of Early Researches of Chinese Literature in Japan

1882年,末松谦澄撰写了日本第一部中国文学史,此后在日本涌现出撰写中国文学史的热潮,尤其集中于1882年至1912年30年间。本文对此阶段日本出版的中国文学史进行分析,对其中所渉中国文学史的定性与定位问题进行阐述,指出日本早期出版的中国文学史的核心理念,是为满足日本近代"国民精神"的需要而提供的学术产品,也是基于本国文化研究上所作的辨章学术、考镜源流。因此,早期的中国文学史实际上是作为日本文学的参照物而存在,是在特殊的历史条件下由国家机构、地缘文化及民族精神共同促生的产物。

A fever of writing on Chinese literary history was sweeping through Japan especially during the thirty years between 1882 and 1912, after Sue Matsu had finished Japan＇s first Chinese literary history in 1882. Besides analyzing works on Chinese literary history in Japan during this period, expounding the questions covered in them like the nature and position of Chinese literary history, this thesis points out that the essence of Japanese early works on Chinese literary history can be referred to as academic products to satisfy the national spiritual demand of modem Japan, and bibliographic presentations on the basis of cultural researches home. Therefore, early Chinese literary history functioned as reference for Japanese literature. It came into being under the collective forces of national body, geo-culture, and national spirit in a specific historic condition.