重評上海古籍出版社編《緯書集成》的得與失――以叢書編輯為考察重心

The Pros and Cons of The Wei-Shu Collection Compiled by Shanghai Classics Publishing House: A Re-evaluation on Book Series Editing

本文旨在跳脫前人研究以「緯書輯佚」為重心的視角，改由「叢書編輯」角度重新評議並定位上海古籍出版社編《緯書集成》一書的出版目標、學術用途與文獻價值。有別於日人安居香山、中村璋八二氏直接輯錄緯書佚文的《緯書集成》，上海版《緯書集成》的編輯以明清人輯佚緯書之著作為基本單位，堪稱一部「緯書輯佚專題叢書」。憑藉其叢書體例優勢，讀者可從上海版《緯書集成》所收的十三種子目中展望明清兩代臧否讖緯的學風轉變、由元代至晚清文獻輯佚工作的愈趨精密，同時也可取得所收善本古籍內的序跋、案語、眉批等珍貴經學、文獻學研究資料。而從其出版至今，上海版《緯書集成》之所以未能取得與其學術價值相應的重視，則須歸咎於「緯書集成」一名無法體現其作為「緯書輯佚專題叢書」的性質，導致讀者誤解其用途並檢索到重複的佚文資料，加上書末的〈索引〉編寫麤疏，最終得到負面之評價。

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and evaluate the Wei-Shu Collection compiled by Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 1994. Past researches criticized this book from the perspective of scattered document compilation, but ignored its bibliological characteristics as a book series. This paper will re-analyze SCPH’s Wei-Shu Collection from another perspective of book series editing. Owing to its series format, SCPH’s Wei-Shu Collection presented an evolutionary process of Wei-Shu compilation from Yuan to Qing Dynasty, which also showed the diachronic developments of Confucian views on Wei-Shu during late Chinese history. Furthermore, SCPH’s Wei-Shu Collection arranged content by photocopying 12 kinds of block-printed rare books, which preserved many comments, prefaces and postscripts by bibliophiles and scholars from the Qing Dynasty. Although it has the advantages mentioned above, the function and value of SCPH’s Wei-Shu Collection are still ignored by the academic community. The reason for the disparagement must first be attributed to its improper naming. Keywords involving book series and scattered document compilation were not reflected in the book title“緯書集成”. This led readers to misunderstand the purpose of the book and become disappointed at it. In this case, its shortcomings as a book series were clearly highlighted: the duplication of scattered document information brought inconvenience to retrieval work. These problems, along with a sloppy index, ultimately earned SCPH’s Wei-Shu Collection a poor review.