吴梅遗稿《霜崖曲话》新发现版本考述

A Textual Research on the Newly Discovered Version of WU Mei’s Remaining Manuscript Shuang-ya Qu-hua

被认为从未公开发表过的吴梅遗稿《霜崖曲话》卷一至卷六的部分内容,曾于1919年开始连载于北洋政府教育部下设的通俗教育研究会会刊《通俗教育丛刊》第3—21辑。这个特别的连载情况不仅将《霜崖曲话》面世时间提前了70年,还以北洋政府教育部社会教育司的官方戏曲改良活动为视角,勾连起吴梅在北京期间的志趣选择和学术立场,展现了一个与通行的“沉默而边缘”叙述不太一样的吴梅,更为理解《霜崖曲话》科学性、系统性写作的新面貌提供了再语境化的机会。

Wu Mei’s posthumous manuscript Shuang-ya Qu-hua, which was believed to have never been published publicly, began to be serialized in 1919 in Popular Education Studies(Volume 3-21), a journal conducted by the Popular Education Research Association under the Ministry of Education of Beiyang Government(1912-1928) during the Republic of China. This special serialization not only advanced the release date of Shuang-ya Qu-hua by 70 years, but also linked WU Mei’s interests and academic positions during his stay in Beijing in terms of the activities of the official drama improvement initiated by the Department of Social Education of the Ministry of Education of Beiyang Government. Moreover, it illustrates Wu Mei as an individual different from what he was usually perceived as “silent and marginal”, and provides an opportunity to better understand the scientific nature and a newly re-contextualized systematic writing of Shuang-ya Qu-hua.