清遗民翁斌孙行迹考论

Research on the Qing Dynasty Adherent Weng Binsun's Whereabouts and Conducts

翁斌孙是常熟翁氏家族在晚清的最后一位大吏,在辛亥后避居天津,以遗老自命。在翁斌孙的遗老生活中,他一方面守旧,秉持着传统士人的操守和价值理念,眷恋旧朝,不仕民国;另一方面又能适时趋新,顺应新兴的时代潮流,融入近代社会。这种亦旧亦新的特征在众多的清遗民中算是"另类"。从更深层次分析,入民国后翁斌孙亦旧亦新的遗老生活,恰恰映射了当时中国新旧杂陈的社会现实,值得深入探讨。

Weng Binsun is the last high-ranking officer in Changshu Weng family in the late Qing dy-nasty. After the revolution of 1911,he took refuge in Tianjin, playing the role of a surviving adherent of the Qing dynasty, during which period, on the one hand, Weng Binsun is conservative, adhereing to integrity and value concept of the traditional gentry, missing Qing Dynasty and refusing to take up a position in the government of the Republic of China; On the other hand, he can keep up with the trend of the new era, integrating into the modern society. This featured combination of the old and the new can be classified as ＂exception＂ among Qing dynasty adherents. From a deeper level of analysis, Weng Binsun＇s both new and old life style as an adherent in the Republic of China, precisely reflects the reality of Chinese society at that time, mixing both old and new ideas. The implications of this are worth pondering.