杨椿与《明史》、《明纪纲目》的纂修

Yang Chun and the Compilation of A History of the Ming Dynasty and A General Outline of the Ming Annals

杨椿作为《明史》和《明纪纲目》纂修官 ,在二书纂修过程中 ,提出了鲜明的史学考据主张 ,当时却未被清廷和史馆总裁所采纳。然而 ,在《明史》刊刻成书 4 0年之后 ,清廷对《明史》和《明纪纲目》先后进行了两次大规模的考订改修 ,其内容却是与杨椿当年提出的主张如出一辙 ,这说明杨椿具有独到的学术眼光和史识。杨椿在清朝官方明史学上具有重要地位 。

Yang Chun was one of the historiographers of A History of the Ming Dynasty and A General Outline of the Ming Annals . He had advanced during his compilership a distinctive view of historical textual critique. Yet, it received no approval from the chief historiographer and was refused by the Qing government. (2) It was forty years after A History of the Ming Dynasty was finished and was turned to be inscribed, the two books were twice reviseds We are inquiringly to find in the revised editions the historiographic view is exactly the same as that Yang Chun proposed scores of years ago. The writer in this paper is in the attempt to give an account of Yang Chun's exceptional cognition of the science of history to be brought to scholars' attention, giving to the historiographer a deserved place in the history of Chinese historiography.