高本汉与杨树达的学术因缘

The Academic Relationship Between Karlgren Bernhard and Yang Shuda

高本汉是在汉语史、古音学、青铜器、古文字、先秦典籍、辞书编纂等领域成就卓著的汉学大师。杨树达是以旧学为根柢,同时熟谙现代学术研究方法与理念的国学大师。20世纪30年代至50年代,高本汉、杨树达两位在先秦典籍考订、汉语词源、殷周青铜器与古文字等领域有颇多相通的旨趣和成果,从相关的书信集、日记、传记、论著等学术史资料中,可以勾勒出两位“汉学”大师的文字交往与学术因缘,亦可将其视作民国时期中西学术交融汇通的佳例。

Karlgren Bernhard was a famous sinologist with outstanding achievements in the fields of Chinese Language history,ancient phonology,bronze ware,ancient characters,pre-Qin classics and lexicography.Yang Shuda was a master of traditional Chinese learning rooted in the old school and well versed in modern academic research methods and concepts.From the 1930s to the 1950s,Bernhard and Yang shared many common academic interests and researches results in such fields as the examination of pre-Qin texts,Chinese etymology,bronze ware of the Yin and Zhou dynasties and etymology in Laozi,Zuozhuan and other ancient classics.From the relevant correspondences,diaries,biographies and other academic historical materials,we can clearly outline the academic communications and relationship of these two masters.They can also be regarded as a good example of the integration of Chinese and Western learning in the Republican period.