陈垣与马相伯和英敛之的文献交往考述

The Association in Terms of Scholarship between Chen Yuan,Ma Xiangbo and Ying Lianzhi

在陈垣与英敛之和马相伯的学术交往中,文献居于一种中心的地位。马、英、陈三人在明末清初天主教文献的考订、刊刻和搜集等活动方面密切合作,并由此促进了陈垣关于中国天主教史的研撰。三人的合作实现了互利。对马相伯和英敛之而言,中国天主教学术由此得到彰扬。对陈垣而言,这种合作在客观上推动了他弃政从学,其个人事业乃至中国近代史学由此而产生重要的转折。

Christian literature played a vital role in the interaction between Chen Yuan,Ma Xiangbo and Ying Lianzhi. The three scholars cooperated closely in terms of collecting,printing and researching Chinese Christian literature of the late Ming and Early Qing periods. These activities facilitated Chen Yuan's research on the history of Chinese Christianity and benefited them all. On the part of Ma Xiangbo and Ying Nianzhi,scholarship on Chinese Catholicism was asserted. For Chen Yuan,this cooperation objectively pushed him to pursue learning and abandon politics; it was a turning point for his personal career and for the study of modern Chinese history.