英文摘要 |
Chen Rong 陳融 (1876-1955) was a native of Panyu County 番禺 in Guangdong Province. During the last years of the Qing dynasty he went to Japan to study and later worked for the Republican Government after the 1911 Revolution. A famous poet and literary critique in modern China, Chen Rong was also well-known for his book collection of Qing dynasty authors. Chen planned to compose Qingshi Jishi 清詩紀事, a Qing poetry collection with annotations on the historical background of each poem, but gave up the plan after learning that the former president Xu Shichang 徐世昌 had already organized a group to compile a Qing poetry collection. Upon reviewing Xu Shichang’s compilation Wanqingyi Shihui 晚晴簃詩匯, he was most dissatisfied with the errors found within, and thus resumed his plan in the late 1920s, becoming the first scholar to compile an annotated anthology of Qing poems. From 1935 to 1937, part of Qingshi Jishi was published over 46 issues of Qing He 青鶴, a magazine in Shanghai. Although under the title of Yongyuan Shihua 顒園詩話, the published portion was an abridged edition of Qingshi Jishi. When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Qing He ceased publication and Yongyuan Shihua also stopped running. After the Japanese occupation of Guangzhou, the books collected by Chen Rong were almost all lost, and the compilation work of Qingshi Jishi could never be completed. Based on the part posted in Qing He and other works of Chen Rong, such as Yuexiu Ji 越秀集 and Qiumenglu Shihua 秋夢廬詩話, this article attempts a preliminary study of the characteristics and significance of Qingshi Jishi. |