老学斋藏书西传考

The Legend of the Ma Kiam Library

马鉴先生的书斋名"老学斋",有藏书万卷,1925年始于北京,1937年辗转到了香港,逃过侵华日军的魔爪,最终一小部分流落新加坡,大部分东渡太平洋,入藏美国弗吉尼亚大学图书馆。本文通过实地查访和文献梳理,力图揭示这一颇有代表性的近代学者私人收藏的构成、流传和在异国他乡的境遇,以此初步探讨供后来者进一步研究。

The later professor of University of Hong Kong Ma Jian＇s personal book collection was established during his more than 30 years long scholarly career. The more than 18000 volumes collection covers traditional four categories of Chinese scholarship, reflected his teaching and research interests as well as a traditional Chinese scholar＇s test. It was started when he first taught at Yanching University in 1925, then in 1936 moved to University ofHong Kong where he taught Chinese literature and history. After his retirement at 1950, he sold about 8000 volumes to University of Malaya in Singapore. In 1960, the rest of the collection was sold to University of Virginia in the United States. This article rediscovers this famous collection＇s content and the past and current situation, thus provides a typical case for further study on fate of a Chinese scholar＇s library in the 20 century of China.