《李仪祉先生年谱》及其作者胡步川研究

Study on the chronicles of Master Li Yizhi and its author Hu Buchuan

以《李仪祉先生年谱》为切入点,研究了近代水利家李仪祉以及作者胡步川在传统水利转型时期的历史。研究指出:20世纪30至40年代以“关中八惠”为代表的现代灌溉工程的兴建,是西方水利科学技术传播并付诸实践的进程,以及第一代水利工程师筚路褴褛的经历。《李仪祉先生年谱》堪称近代年谱的经典,弥补了近代水利史诸多空白,具有重要的史料价值。胡步川是现代水利工程建设和现代灌区管理的先行者,胡步川是被忽略的近现代水利大家,值得多视角的深入的研究。

Pivoting around The Chronicles of Master Li Yizhi,this paper takes stock of the life of Master Li Yizhi and his chronological author Mr.Hu Buchuan during China’s traditional water engineering transi⁃tion.In the 1930s and 1940s,the first generation of Chinese water engineers brought to fruition a number of modern irrigation projects in Shaanxi Province despite extreme difficulties.They blaized a trail of modern engineering in China by assimilating and applying western water science and technology.The Chronicles of Master Li Yizhi is a classic of modern chronicles,which has filled in many gaps in modern water engineer⁃ing history and bears important historical value.The study also notes in the conclusions that Mr.Hu Buch⁃uan,who is the writer of The Chronicles of Master Li Yizhi,prioneered with indigenous design and con⁃struction of large sluices and initiated irrigation district water management under the water right mechanism.Mr.Hu Buchuan is an unacknowledged modern water scientist,who deserves an in-depth study from many perspectives.