新中国成立后钱锺书的学术道路(1949-1966)

Qian Zhongshu’s Academic Career at Middle Age,1949~1966

钱锺书在新中国成立后不再从事文学创作,很快被吸纳到共和国学术机构中去,按照新式的科研规划与安排从事研究,直至1966年后中断。这段时间是钱锺书生命中相对安稳而又忙碌的阶段,作为文学研究所古典文学组的研究员,他在个人读书兴趣与当下科研机构制度下的工作任务需要之间,逐渐寻找并确立了一种回归经典源头且试图以此与时代进行对话的方式。这种学术志趣上的变化,最终成就了钱锺书从浑无涯涘的博览事业中走出,写成他的学术巨著《管锥编》。追溯这一学术道路里个人与时代的关联线索,结合读书笔记手稿、信函等材料,有助于揭示钱锺书后半生学术发展轨迹的主要特点。

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China,Qian Zhongshu stopped his literary creation,and was quickly absorbed into new academic institutions,engaging in research according to new plan and arrangement,until it was interrupted after being denounced in 1966.That was a relatively stable and busy period in Qian’s life.As a member of the Classical Literature Research Group in Institute of Literature,he gradually established a way between individual reading interest and work task under the research system then,to return to the source of classics and try to make a dialogue with the times.This change in academic inclination eventually led Qian Zhongshu stepping out of his extensive yet wild reading,and writing out the magnum opus Limited Views.By means of materials such as reading notes,manuscripts,letters,it will be helpful to reveal the main characteristics of Qian’s academic course at his middle age by tracing the correlation between individual and times.