摘要
上个世纪之交,一种新的文化现象出现在中国东部沿海城市——即中文的现代西式百科全书问世。这些新式教育工具以简洁的语言为现代社会文化中的众多问题提供了简明而有序的信息,其创新意义,远非彼时中国所使用的“工具书”一词所能概括。本文考察了黄摩西1911年出版的《普通百科新大辞典》,它被视为1903—1911年间中国出版的同类著作中最先进的一部。我们特别关注这部著作之成为“现代”工具书的那些特征,以此勾勒出这部辞书的现代的、世界主义的特质,同时也展示出学者黄摩西的学术成就;并从一个特定角度,呈现已成为晚清社会风格标志的西学东渐的过程。
This paper intends to examine the A new general encyclopaedic dictionary （普通百科新大词典）, which has been ranked as the most advanced of the works of this kind published in China during the period 1903 to 1911. We concern ourselves particularly with those features of Huang＇s last chef d＇ oeuvre that made it a modem reference work, i.e., one which could help the Chinese reader to cope with the flood of new information arriving at that time from Japan and the West. We focus on these four areas in order to bring into relief the modem and cosmopolitan nature of Huang＇ s encyclopaedia and the intellectual efforts of a scholar, who, proficient in English and Japanese despite never leaving China, was well acquainted with the contemporary British and Japanese cultural scene, and who saw as his mission to bring the Chinese culture of his time abreast advanced foreign cultures. Despite the unquestionable qualities, both practical and scholarly, of Huang＇ s work and certain other late Qing encyclopaedias, the vision of modem Chinese reference works as a bridge between Chinese and advanced foreign cultures remained unrealised. The late Qing encyclopaedias and other reference works of the period fell in oblivion sometime during the 1910s and were neither collected nor listed by Chinese university libraries.
出处
《北京大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第2期75-84,共10页
Journal of Peking University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
关键词
“百科全书”(encyclopaedia)
类书
“新学”
中国现代百科全书
黄摩西
《普通百科新大辞典》
＂Encyclopaedia＂
Leishu
＂New Knowledge＂
The Rise of Modem Chinese Encyclopaedia
Huang Moxi （黄摩西）（1866-1913）
Putong baike xin da cidian （普通百科新大词典） （A new general encyclopaedic dictionary）
作者简介
米列娜（Milena Dolezelova），女，德国海德堡大学研究教授，博士。
