心长路远——胡适的传记写作与出版流变

The Permanent Pursuit and Long Journey:On the Evolution of Writing and Publishing of Hu Shi Biography

本文从出版传播学视角来探讨胡适的传记写作与出版。胡适是现代传记文学的倡导者和积极实践者,提出了'给史家做材料,给文学开生路'这一关于传记文学的著名论断。作为传主的胡适被不断地书写,经历了扬—抑—扬的变化历程,也是一条由学术上'论胡'到政治上'批胡''丑化胡'而重返学术'研胡''赞胡'的曲折之路。胡适从被贬抑、批判到逐渐被肯定、褒扬,是四十年来改革开放的结果;到了改革开放后,胡适才有可能成为学术研究与出版、阅读的对象;胡适研究与传记写作出版的广度和深度的不断拓展,也从一个方面反映了社会开明化的程度。

This paper attempts to discuss Hu Shi’s life writing and its publication in China's Mainland from the perspectives of communication.As a modern advocate and practitioner of biography,the Chinese scholar Hu Shi is widely known for his statement that biography functions as materials for historians and extends a new path for litterateurs.He himself was continuously written as a biographee and witnessed an up-and-down history for such a life writing.At the outset he was given credit for his academic achievements,and then blamed and belittled politically for his'repugnant'behaviors,until he was researched and respected in the academic circle.The eventual recognition of his contributions is attributed to the implementation of the economic reform and open-door policy in China 40 years ago.That the studies of Hu Shi and his life writing deepens and broadens partially reflects the enhanced toleration and openness in China.