中国古典文学研究四十年

Researches on Chinese Classical Literature over the Past Forty years

改革开放40年来,中国古典文学研究事业在经典中寻找方向,在传统中汲取力量,在创新中积累经验,在回归中实现超越。从宏观发展趋势看,这种研究呈现回归经典的历史趋势、中华文学的观念建构、文献整理的时代特色和理论研究的强势回归等特征。回归经典,就是回归到马克思主义经典上来,回归到中华优秀传统文化经典上来;"中华文学"是一个建立在大中华文学史观基础上的相对独立的学科体系、学术体系和话语体系,既是现实的实践问题,也是深邃的理论问题;四十多年来,以中华书局和上海古籍出版社为龙头,大型的文学总集、工具书及资料汇编得到系统整理出版,为中国古典文学研究提供了丰富全面的资料,极大地推动了中国古典文学研究的深入发展。可以说,文献整理、史料研究工作正处在一个前所未有的最好历史时期;实事求是,对具体材料作具体分析,这是历史唯物主义的基本态度,也是未来中国古典文学研究进一步发展的理论方向。

Over the past 40 years since the reform and opening up, the research on Chinese classical literature has been looking for direction in classics, gaining strength from tradition, accumulating experience in innovation and surpassing predecessors when going back to the tradition. In terms of its general trend, the research shows the trend of returning to classics, the concept construction of Chinese literature, the characteristics of our age in literature collation and the powerful return to theoretical researches. To return to the classics is to return to the Marxist classics and the classics of excellent traditional Chinese culture. 'Chinese literature' is a relatively independent disciplinary, academic and discourse system based on the historical view of great Chinese literature. Over the past 40 years, led by Zhonghua Book Publishing House and Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, large literature collections, reference books and resource compilations have been systematically edited and published, providing rich and full-scale resources for the study of Chinese classical literature and greatly promoting the in-depth development of the study of Chinese classical literature. It can be said that we are in an unprecedented best historical period of literature collection and researches on historical resources. Seeking truth from facts and making concrete analysis of specific materials are the basic attitudes of historical materialism and the theoretical trend of further development of Chinese classical literature research in the future.