基于清水江学建构的清水江文书研究再认识

Re-understanding Literature Researches on the Basis of the Construction of the Qingshui River Study

从目前清水江文书研究取得的成果不难看到,由于在一个宽泛的历史学框架内进行研究,它容纳了许多研究课题,如文献的比较研究、林业生产及生态环境、乡村社会生活、乡村经济生活等,并在此基础上显示出了清水江文书研究以村寨为中心的社会史、历史人类学方法取向与“区域史”的鲜明学科特征。这一学科特征的显现在于其立足于清水江文书的“清水江问题”意识,而“清水江问题”意识的核心是“成长中的社会”,成长中的社会本质上即是社会变迁,因而对清水江流域民族社会变迁的观察须持有“清水江中心观”的学术理念。上述研究既为建构清水江学奠定了学术积累,也是这一地域性学科迈向成熟在理论与方法上的探索。对其再认识、再总结,有利于人们更加明了“清水江研究何以成学”,并助推这一地域性学科进一步走向成熟,成为中国学术一个独特而又靓丽的领域。

It is not difficult to see from the current research results of the Qingshui River documents that because related studies have been carried out within a broad historical framework they contain many research topics, i.e., comparative literature researches, forestry production and ecological environment and social and economical rural life, demonstrating the orientation of social history and historical anthropology methods of studies centered around villages and distinct disciplinary features of “regional history”. The appearance of this disciplinary characteristics lies in the studies setting the foothold of “Qingshui River problems” consciousness in the documents, and the cores of the consciousness is the “growing society” which essentially means the social changes. Therefore, the observation of the national social changes in the Qingshui River Valley must based on Academic notion of “concept of Qingshui River as a center”. The above researches have not only established the academic accumulation for the construction of Qingshui River Study but also explored the theory and method of this regional discipline towards maturity. Re -understanding and re -summarizing them will help people have better understanding of “why the researches of the Qingshui River can become a study” and help this regional discipline move toward more mature and become a unique and beautiful field in the Chinese academic circle.