致广大而尽精微——关德栋教授的俗文学研究

Exquisite Details and Broad Realm: On Professor Guan Dedong’s Study of Popular Literature

关德栋教授是我国著名俗文学专家,是20世纪三四十年代以郑振铎、赵景深为代表的“俗文学”学派的重要成员,其长达六十余年的学术生涯见证了中国俗文学研究的起承转合。他的俗文学研究始于佛教通俗文学研究,在敦煌俗文学、明清时调民歌、说唱文学等研究领域取得了突出成就。他治学严谨,视野开阔,注重对俗文学文献的搜集、整理,提倡跨地域、跨学科的研究方法,往往能提出新的学术见解。关德栋为中国俗文学研究做出了突出贡献,在中国俗文学学术史上占有重要的地位。

Professor Guan Dedong, a famous expert in popular literature in China, was an important member of the “popular literature” school represented by Zheng Zhenduo and Zhao Jingshen in the 1930s and 1940s. His research career of more than 60 years witnessed the ups and downs of Chinese popular literature research. Guan’s study of popular literature began with the study of Buddhist popular literature and he made outstanding achievements in the fields of Dunhuang popular literature, folk songs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, rap literature and so on. He had rigorous scholarship and broad vision, paying attention not only to the collection and sorting of popular literature documents, but also to the advocation of cross regional and interdisciplinary research methods. He could often put forward new ideas and opinions, which had not been issued by his predecessors, contributing greatly to the study of Chinese popular literature, thus occupying an important position in the academic history of Chinese popular literature.