傅兰雅《译书事略》的目录学解读

The Bibliography Interpretation of John Fryer's Yi Shu Shi Lue

英国人傅兰雅1880年的《译书事略》是江南制造总局翻译馆的译印图书目录。该目录首次对西书独立编目,从而完成了对"西学"的书目确认:西学是不同于传统中学的另一个学术体系。《译书事略》还通过著录、分类等书目要素,揭示西学的学科化性质以及"力今""胜古"的求新指向,成为梁启超《西学书目表》等中国人所撰西学书目的前驱。

Yi Shu Shi Lue, written by an English man John Fryer in 1880, is a translated and printed book catalogue of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of Translation Center. It is the first time that the western book was catalogued independently, thus to complete the bibliography of the Western Learning and to identify Western learning as academic system different from the traditional Chinese Learning. Yi Shu Shi Lue revealed the Western subject nature and the new direction of "driving today" and "winning ancient" through the description, classification and other bibliographic elements, so as to become the precursor of Liang Qichao's "Xi xue shu mu biao" and other Chinese bibliography.