港大“中國經學”課程之退場———一個東亞視域的考察

The Exit of Chinese Classics Course in the University of Hong Kong: Consider from East Asia

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

本文立足於先行研究成果，進而從一個相對廣域的東亞視野來考察1934年以還，始於胡適，歷經陳受頤、容肇祖，完成於許地山的港大中文系改革事業之緣起原委、發展經過、造成之結果及其可能意涵。全文主要討論兩大議題，一是將港大中文系之改革，視爲中國新文化思潮、文學革命之一環，重新分析胡適主持計劃改革港大中文系這一事業的性質爲何？二是將港大中文系改革之兩大結果，亦即區分中國文史學系爲“哲學”、“史學”、“文學”、“普通文學”四部，以及將“經學”自港大中文教育退場一事，置於東亞之近代新式大學課程如何編派舊學的發展脈絡中，以思考其間所展現出的共同樣態。本文以爲港大中文教育之改革，其實並非只是一個大學内部單純的“課程”架構問題，我們應該將之納入民國初年以來胡適所從事的“文學革命”之一環來加以認識。又“經學”自港大中文完全退場，不僅是在英國人意想之外，也在中國内地“中文教學變動潮流”之外，筆者因此判斷胡適、許地山的港大中文學院改革發想源頭，恐在“域外”。而據本文考察我們得以合理推測：港大中國文史學系“中國經學”課程的退場，確實存在著隱而不宣的“日本因素”。

This article bases on the East Asian horizon to explore the origin, process, result and meaning of the reformation in Department of Chinese in the University of Hong Kong (HKU), which was begun by Hu Shih from 1934, developed by Chen Shou-yi, Yung Zhao-zu, and finished by Xu Di-shan. Firstly, I see the reformation in Department of Chinese in HKU as a part of “new culture trend” and the revolution in literature in China and reanalyze the properties of Hu Shih’s plan for the reformation in Department of Chinese in HKU. Secondly, I put the result of the the reformation in Department of Chinese in HKU, that to separate Department of Chinese Literature And History as four parts: philosophy, history, literature and common literature, and to let Chinese Classics course exited from the Chinese education in HKU, into the context of the development of new course in modern East Asian universities. Therefore, I think that the reformation in Department of Chinese in HKU was not a matter about courses in universities but a part of the revolution in literature in China which related with Hu Shih. And the exit of Chinese Classics Course in HKU was not only unexpected for British but also out of the change of Chinese education in China. Through this study, I think that the origin of this reformation was in foreign. And there was invisible factors about Japan related with the exit of Chinese Classics Course in HKU.