《浮生六记》第一读者:杨引传

The First Reader of Six Records of Floating Life: Yang Yinchuan

晚清江南甪直的杨引传,是《浮生六记》残本的发现者和文本出版的推动者。他是睁眼看世界的思想家王韬的妻兄,与王韬有长期的思想交流并互为影响。对杨引传的研究,特别是对他家庭、身世、社会关系的厘清,是回溯研究王韬等晚清口岸知识分子所受传统文化牵制的另一路径,进而探究他们在传统和现实中徘徊的行为逻辑的根源;同时也反映了世界时局巨变的大时代下江南社会泛口岸知识分子的心路历程。本文在新发现的史料基础上,编撰了杨引传简表,披露他与巴金的曾祖父李璠的一段历史渊源。

Yang Yinchuan, who lived in Luzhi, Jiangnan in the late Qing Dynasty, was the discoverer of remnants of the book Six Records of Floating Life and the promoter of its publication. He is the brother-in-law of Wang Tao, a Chinese thinker and publisher who introduced Western ideas to China. He and Wang Tao had a long history of sharing ideas and influences on each other. As such, the study of Yang Yinchuan, particularly that of his family background, life experience, and social relations;is another way to retrospectively study Wang Tao and other late Qing port intellectuals who were constrained by traditional culture, and then to explore the behavioral logic of their relationships with tradition and reality. Moreover, it also engages the mental journey experienced by the pan-port intellectuals in Jiangnan society at a time of great change in the world. Based on the newly discovered historical materials, this paper compiles a brief table of Yang Yinchuan’s biography, and helps restore the historical relationship between him and Ba Jin’s great-grandfather, Li Fan.