“金庸小说”与“金学”

“Jin Yong’s Novels” and the “Jin Yong Studies”

武侠小说是通俗小说的重要门类,而通俗小说诉诸读者层面的所思、所感、所受,与中国传统文学以作者为核心,强调社会效用及教化功能的理论大相径庭,因此也向来为主流学者所鄙夷不道。金庸的出现,以其优秀杰出的作品,突破了此一拘限中国文人千年以上的框架,使武侠小说得以跻身于文学殿堂。这是一个武侠研究乃至通俗文学研究的重要契机。金庸虽已往矣,然“金学研究”才正要掀开其崭新的一页,如何藉用目前已相当丰硕的研究成果更进一步重加检讨思索,从层面的拓展、方法的革新上齐步而进,避开只以金庸小说为单一对象的盲点,未来研究的发展应是可以期待的。目前最迫切的奠基工作,首在于扩大研究班底,组织研究团队,并建立“金学数据库”,这将是当前建构“金学”的要务。

Martial novels are an important category of popular novels, while popular novels appeal to the readers’ thoughts and feelings, which are quite different from the traditional Chinese theories that emphasize the social utility and the function of enlightenment. So these novels were looked down upon by mainstream scholars. However, with the appearance of Jin Yong and his extraordinary works, the thousand-year-log Chinese literati framework was broken. Martial novels entered the literary palace. This is an important opportunity for the study of Martial novels and even popular literature. Although Jin Yong passed away, the “Jin Yong Studies” is just going to open up a new page. How to further review the thoughts, expand the level and innovate the method by using the huge research results now, and how to avoid the blind spot of taking Jin Yong’s novels as the single research object are thought-provoking. The future development of the “Jin Yong Studies” can be expected. At present, the most urgent work is to expand the research group, organize research teams and set up a “Jin Yong Database”, which will be the key to constructing the “Jin Yong Studies”.