Wang Shuizhao, a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, was born in July 1934. /kloc-graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University in the autumn of 0/960, and later worked in the Literature Research Institute of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences (now China Academy of Social Sciences). 1in the spring of 978, he was transferred to the Chinese Department of our school to teach. He is currently a member of the Academic Committee of the Department, director of the Teaching and Research Section of Classical Literature, executive director of Shanghai Classical Literature Research Association, director of Qiuhai Poetry Society, and vice president of the National Sushi Research Association.

For more than 30 years, Professor Wang has devoted himself to the study of classical literature, published a large number of academic papers, and published monographs such as Selected Notes on Prose in Song Dynasty, Selected Works of Su Shi, Literary Essays in Tang and Song Dynasties, and Japanese translations of Su Shi's People and Literature. He is also one of the main authors of China Literature History and Selected Readings of Tang Poetry compiled by the Institute of Literature. He specializes in Tang and Song literature, especially in Tang and Song poetry, prose and Su Shi research, and has made great achievements, forming his own academic style of being studious and thoughtful, distinguishing doubts and solving problems. Professor Wang pays attention to the academic significance and value of the research topic, chooses the major issues or difficulties concerned by the academic circles as far as possible, and dares to put forward his own opinions on the basis of mastering sufficient materials. His comments on the study of Du Fu in the early 1960s and his discussion on the reasons for the prosperity of Tang poetry in the late 1970s attracted academic attention with his unique and novel views and profound and incisive exposition. The article "Comment on Su Shi's Political Attitude and Political Poetry" published by him in 1980s was the earliest article for Su Shi's rehabilitation after the academic circles set things right, and won the Shanghai Excellent Paper Award in Social Sciences.

In the research, Professor Wang also pays attention to the development of new fields and the diversification of research angles. He is an early scholar who devoted himself to the study of prose in Song Dynasty in China, and published more than ten series of papers. In the field of Ci, his new work "On the Separation and Combination of Ci and Poetry from Su Shi's and Qin Guan's Ci" attempts to study some Ci phenomena by comparative methods or historical tracing methods, and won the excellent thesis award of China Qin Guan Society. In recent years, he attached great importance to the comprehensive study of Song Dynasty literature and Song people's mentality, with a broader vision and a more magnificent exposition.

Professor Wang's research is rooted in a solid empirical foundation and devoted to the discovery, collation and textual research of new materials. The book Selected Works of Su Shi, published by 1984, is an anthology with rich materials, solid workmanship and strong academic nature, and is praised by academic circles as "a rare and excellent structure in the anthology of ancient writers."

Professor Wang Shuizhao has devoted himself to the research and teaching of China's ancient literature, and has been actively engaged in academic exchanges between China and foreign countries in recent years. In addition to instructing graduate students majoring in literature in the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, I have also instructed advanced students in Japan and other countries. 1In the autumn of 984, Professor Wang was invited by the Department of Literature of Tokyo University to give lectures in this school for one and a half years. During his stay in Japan, he exchanged ideas with overseas scholars, published academic papers and lectures, and tried to find materials and other classics discovered in China and stored in other countries. After returning from Japan, he presided over the compilation of two works, collected the works of Japanese scholar China on Ci and three Japanese words, and compiled three works, namely, The Chronicle of Song People in Su Dynasty, Notes on Wang Jingwen's Poems and Li Bi (Korean Movable Type Edition) and Collated Poems by Mr. Dongpo, which were published by publishing houses one after another. In the academic field, Professor Wang Shuizhao is never satisfied, but he is still diligent and devoted to learning the sea. 1988 He was listed in the World Who's Who by the World Biography Center in Cambridge, England.

(See Professor Wang Shuizhao, Gao Keqin's doctoral supervisor)

Academic innovation

Su Shi's research

This is one of Mr. Wang's most striking areas. Professor of American sinology has repeatedly quoted Mr. Wang's research results in his monograph on Su Shi. Mr. Wang was the author of Su Shi's revised edition when Peking University compiled the Red Book and the History of China Literature in grade 55. Although constrained by the "Left" social trend of thought at that time, he clearly affirmed that Su Shi was the representative of the highest literary achievement in the Song Dynasty. Later, he wrote a chapter on Su Shi in the History of Literature compiled by the College of Literature. Due to well-known reasons, this beginning of Su Shi's research was interrupted after 1966.

It has been 1978 to re-study Su Shi. Mr. Wang published an article "Su Shi's Political Attitude and Political Poetry Review" in the Literary Review of that year. This is the first article to vindicate Su Shi's opportunism and double-dealing, which was accused by the "criticizing Confucianism and criticizing the law" movement during the Cultural Revolution. In fact, this kind of argument has gone beyond the scope of pure academic research, but it has created the necessary premise for the free discussion of Su Shi's historical features. However, Su Shi is mainly a writer, not a politician. Therefore, the focus of Su Shi's research should be on the discussion of his literary works. Based on this understanding, Mr. Wang has written papers such as On the Development Stage of Su Shi's Creation, The Truth of Life and the Truth of Art —— From Su Shi's Riverside Classic. At the same time, he edited the book Selected Works of Su Shi. This book selects more than 300 poems by Su Shi, which are chronicled separately. In the "notes", pay attention to summing up and sorting out the differences of predecessors, divorced from their own wishes; Also set up a "set of comments", and strive to achieve "detailed but not trivial, rich but not"; There is another "appendix", which aims at some unclear problems and related materials that are conducive to understanding Su Shi's works. It is regarded as a rare masterpiece in the anthology of ancient writers, and won the first national ancient books sorting book award. Mr. Qian Zhongshu spoke highly of this book, calling it "outstanding into the forest of works and becoming a family study."

In fact, the significance and value of Su Shi are not limited to the field of literature. His life thought and attitude became a typical example for later scholars to follow. Based on this understanding, Mr. Wang put more energy into this discussion. For example, Su Shi's life thinking and cultural character, Su Shi's and Xin Qiji's mentality in the period of retirement, etc., have all been published in Literary Heritage. The former reveals the profound influence of Su Shi's life thought on China culture. Through the two life topics of "origin" and "life and death", this paper makes a detailed analysis of the changes of Su Shi's life thought and the ups and downs of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and then analyzes Su Shi's complete personality system with madness, broadness, harmony and fitness as the core, and holds that this life thought and culture are involved. After this article was read out at the fifth seminar of Su Shi Research Association, it immediately aroused great concern and heated discussion among the participants. The word "cultural personality" summarized by Mr. Wang has been widely used since then. This article has been fully translated by Japanese magazine Olive. And won the Shanghai Excellent Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences.

From Su Shi as a politician, to Su Shi as a writer, and then to Su Shi as a cultural model, Mr. Wang's process of governing the Soviet Union is roughly the same. This process also reflects the development trend of domestic Su Shi research, and Mr. Wang's research is synchronized with it. Su Shi's Essays on Su Shi (16) has been published in Taiwan Province Province, and its updated version Su Shi Research (24) has also been published by Hebei Education Press. This book has won the second prize for research achievements in humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education (second prize for works) and the first prize for outstanding achievements of national social science fund projects (third prize for works).

Prose research

Before the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Wang's prose collections Style of Song Dynasty Prose and Development of Song Dynasty Prose Skills and Styles regarded "simplicity, naturalness, fluency and roundness" as the "stable and mature" style of Song Dynasty Prose, which has been widely quoted since then. In Mr. Wang's later writings, after 1978, it was also called "group". His research on prose in the Song Dynasty mainly focused on Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Wang Anshi and other six masters in the Northern Song Dynasty. He also compiled seven or eight selected prose books, including Selected Prose of the Tang and Song Dynasties (won the Third National Ancient Books Arrangement Award), and made a systematic study on prose in the Song Dynasty. Mr. Wang pointed out that in order to re-understand the "miscellaneous literature" nature of China ancient prose, we should not understand the literariness and artistry of ancient prose too narrowly. For example, Ceng Gong, one of the six great writers in the Northern Song Dynasty, has been neglected since the May 4th Movement. One of the important reasons is the concept of modern people observing modern literary prose. If we carefully clean up and summarize the theoretical achievements and writing experience of China's classical prose, and find out the unique concept system formed in the history of China's prose, those argumentative essays that do not belong to literary prose in modern literature classification are actually important components of China's ancient prose. In view of this, Mr. Wang discussed in detail the creative achievements and evaluation of various styles in prose, and analyzed his brushwork such as "gathering qi", "gaining momentum", "writing eyes" and "linking", revealing the aesthetic factors contained in it, which was praised as "a masterpiece of studying Zeng Wen at present". It should be pointed out that in various literary styles in ancient China, people's criticism of poems, words, plays and novels has basically formed a set of relatively stable terms, and the theoretical criticism materials of poems, words, plays and novels have also been basically cleared up. Relatively speaking, the critical terms and methods of "Wen" have not been scientifically constructed, let alone skillfully used. Mr. Wang believes that it is necessary to define ancient Chinese prose from the aesthetic point of view today, and this requires first of all to systematically sort out the existing critical categories and terms of predecessors, so it is imperative to comprehensively sort out and clean up the ancient "Wenhua". Over the past few years, Mr. Wang has been engaged in this work tirelessly, and finally compiled a voluminous "Mandarin of Past Dynasties". This book contains *** 142 kinds of ancient article study books and volumes with about 5 million words, which will provide important basic documents for the study of ancient Chinese literature history, literary criticism, rhetoric and linguistics, and is expected to be published in the near future.

Mr. Wang's prose research in Song Dynasty pays attention to the combination of overall grasp and case analysis. While sorting out the historical context, he also paid attention to clarifying some specious issues, such as the article Ouyang Xiu studied under Athena Chu's ancient prose. With sufficient materials, he confirmed the truth that Euclid learned ancient prose from Athena Chu, understood the diversion of ancient prose writers and Euclid's choice in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and more profoundly revealed the tortuous process and rich connotation of the formation of the prose "group" in the Song Dynasty.

Study on Song Ci

Mr. Wang mainly studies Su Xin Ci School and Su Men Ci poets. Among them, the most influential paper is The Significance and Evaluation of Su Shi's Bold Ci, which is a historical case of the dispute between "bold" and "graceful" in the study of Ci. This paper jumps out of the previous paradigm of focusing only on artistic style and starts with clarifying the historical origin and evolution of this pair of concepts. After careful argumentation, it is pointed out that bold and graceful schools are not literary schools in the strict sense, and their artistic styles are not simple. Instead of identifying specific writers or works one by one, it refers to two basic tendencies in content and theme, style and techniques, especially physical temperament, and two different trends in maintaining or innovating the traditional style of Ci. Therefore, we should start with the origin of Ci and grasp the essence of this concept, so as to understand the innovative significance of Su Ci. This paper provides a new idea or breakthrough point for solving this long-term academic dispute, and therefore won the Xia Ci Award (the first prize of the paper). The second is "the tendency of separation and combination of ci and poetry from Su Shi's and Qin Guan's ci". By comparing Su Shi's and Qin Guan's ci, the tendency of separation and combination of poetry in Song Dynasty is revealed. The article is unique in the application of comparative investigation methods, and won the excellent thesis award of China Qin Guan Society. Thirdly, through the analysis of a group of rhymes in On Harmony between Qin Guan and Su Shi, it is believed that Yuan Party members such as Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Qin Guan have three different mentalities towards relegation to Lingnan and other places, and these three different psychological responses to adversity can roughly summarize the general types of relegated literati in the old society. This paper takes the small as the big, which has attracted the attention of academic circles.

Thematic comprehensive research

In recent years, Mr. Wang has two main jobs, one is the study of the literati group in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the other is the editor-in-chief of the book General Literature of the Song Dynasty. The former focuses on the three major literati groups in the Northern Song Dynasty: Luoyang Shogunate Group with money as the center, Jiaju Sub-group with Ouyang Xiu as its ally, and Yuan "Bachelor" Group with Su Shi as its leader. The main published papers are Literary Alliance in Northern Song Dynasty and Social Thoughts of Advocating Unity, Relationship between Luoyang Literati Group in Northern Song Dynasty and Regional Environment, New Face of Luoyang Literati Group in Northern Song Dynasty and Song Poetry, Significance of Tribute Event in the Second Year of Jia Dynasty, Formation of Su Men and Characteristics of Talent Network, etc., which have aroused widespread concern in academic circles, and the perspective of "Literati Group" has been adopted by many researchers. In this study, Mr. Wang tries to explain the maturity and cultural background of the literary main league trend of thought, the causes, attributes and characteristics of the three major groups, the relationship with the literary trend of thought, literary movement, poetry creation and development in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the influence of various mechanisms such as the blending and competition of group forms on their members' mentality and creation, so as to reveal the real and sensible historical content of literature in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The book General Theory of Song Dynasty Literature organizes the overall framework in a special way, and comprehensively and systematically discusses the general situation, characteristics, development process, historical position and influence of the literature of the two Song Dynasties. This book is different from the usual textbook style of "taking the times as the order and writers as the center", and it has opened up many new ideas. The following are three independent papers published by Mr. Wang to illustrate. The "modern" orientation of the spirit of "Family Law of Ancestors" and "Book of Songs" in literature is an earlier paper to study the literature of Song Dynasty from the perspective of "Song-style culture". On the basis of absorbing the definitions of "Tang-style culture" and "Song-style culture", Mr. Wang further pointed out that "The Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty was not only the turning point of the gradual decline of the Tang Dynasty, but also the starting point of China feudal society from the early stage to the later stage. Culturally, the Tang Dynasty represented the rising period of China's feudal culture, while the Song Dynasty was the finalization and maturity of the new culture gradually developed from the middle Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the division of types has more significance and value in cultural history than the simple division of dynasties. " In Meaning, Origin and Foreign Cultural Relations, Mr. Wang re-discussed the relationship between Song-style culture and Song-style literature, inspected Song-style literature with the wisdom of "harmony between man and nature", and evaluated the prosperity and changes of Song-style literature from the grand spirit of Song-style cultural integration. These are all new. The article "The Change of Style and the New Face of Literature in Song Dynasty" examines the origin of "the theory of literature generation by generation", and observes the characteristics and evolution of the five major styles of poetry, ci, literature, novel and opera in Song Dynasty from the perspectives of "distinguishing elegance from vulgarity" and "respecting style and breaking style", which are all enlightening. When evaluating the popular view that Song Ci is the representative of Song literature, Mr. Wang pointed out that this view is correct only in the following sense: "Judging from the development of various literary styles in China literature, Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the peak of Ci literature. The achievements of Ci poetry in the Qing Dynasty can not be underestimated, but the Ci poetry in the Qing Dynasty was slightly different from the Song Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and always came second. Song Ci is regarded as the highest achievement of China's Ci studies. With its innovative and pioneering style, it has won the historical position of keeping pace with the previous generation for Song literature. In this sense, it is well-deserved to be juxtaposed with Chu Sao, Han Fu, Parallel Prose of the Six Dynasties, Tang Poetry and Yuan Qu. If you think that the achievements of Song Ci have surpassed those of Song Ci and Wen Song at the same time, it is not very accurate. " Mr. Wang's exposition on Song-style culture and its relationship with Song literature has been widely recognized by academic circles and has become the starting point for further research in academic circles.

In May 2000, the 600,000-word "Selected Works of Wang Shuizhao" was published, which aroused widespread concern in academic circles. More than ten years ago, the famous academic predecessor of the Chinese Department made a brief and accurate evaluation of Mr. Wang's academic works, saying that "there is no branch in words, no purity in body, and two people don't think." Today, people who have read this anthology still feel the same way.