探寻中国话剧艺术百年振兴之路——浅评田本相主编的九卷本《中国话剧艺术史》

The Centenary Development of Modern Chinese Dramatic Art:A Review of A History of Modern Chinese Dramatic Art Edited by Tian Benxiang

田本相主编的九卷本《中国话剧艺术史》是一部全面、深入、系统地论述中国话剧百年发展历程的艺术通史。该艺术史坚持史论结合的传统,具有三方面的特点:一是为读者重新认识中国话剧百年历史的发展提供了丰富、全面的资源;二是总结了近三十年已有的研究成果,在一些领域进行了创造性的书写,为进一步评价百年话剧历史价值提供了新的借鉴;三是遵循了史家严谨治史的传统,直面纷纭复杂的历史问题与现实问题,蕴涵着中国学者对话剧艺术的热爱与现实关怀。上述特点使这部艺术史达到了一定的学术水准,成为中国话剧艺术史研究的一部里程碑式作品。

The nine-volume work A History of Modern Chinese Dramatic Art edited by Tian Benxiang is a comprehensive, in-depth and systematic review of the development of modem Chinese drama over the last century. The book is written in the tradition of combining historical facts with comments and presents three major characteristics for modem Chinese dramatic art. Firstly, it provides readers with abundant and comprehensive resources to support the reading of the centenary history of modem Chinese drama. Secondly, it summarizes the contemporary scholarship in the last thirty years and makes original comments in some aspects, providing new perspectives for the re-evaluation of the history of modem drama. Thirdly, with meticulous attention to history as is always seen in the writings of the traditional historians, the book confronts itself with the complicated and sophisticated issues in history and reality, and exemplifies Chinese scholars＇ passion for dramatic art and concerns for reality. The above mentioned characteristics make this book a serious and high-level academic work, and a milestone in the academic field for the history of modem Chinese dramatic art.