评陈桥驿的《“水经注”研究》

本文指出了陈桥驿在《水经注》研究(或郦学)方面的贡献。

COMMENTARY ON CHEN QIAOYI' S "STUDIES OF' NOTES ON BOOK OF WATERWAYS'

The present paper centres on the academic value of "Studies of ‘Notes on Book of Water ways'", a new work by Professor Chen Qiaoyi. The author making use of large quantities of traditional gazetteers and en cyclopaedias (Lei shu), collecting a wide range of data and basing on his profound learning in ancient literature and classics, has so successfully developed a new research method from the old one that he achieves in further perfecting the compilation of the lost data and in paving a new way to the research in Li-ology. This paper also makes high evaluation of the author's scientific comments on many problems in "Notes on Book of Waterways", especially his supplements to Li's "Notes on the Jianjiang River"——an uncommon contribution of the authorthat deserves high commendation.The book, putting aside the frames of "Notes on Book of Walerways", represents rich fruits of such multilevel, multiangular and multh disciplinary comprehensive researches that not only the Li-ology students but also all those who arc specialized in history and literature should read the book, for here lies a wealth of historical data either unknown to or overlooked by our predecessors