Ah Ying: A Pioneer Worker Of Historical Documents Of Chinese New Literature

Since Ma Liangchun called for the establishment of the historical documents of Chinese modern literature in the mid-1980s, the historical documents research has been gradually carried on. Ah Ying is not only a historical documents forerunner, further said, he is the pioneer worker in this field. In the earlier period of its development, Ah Ying has made the prominent contribution. This article inspects how great achievements Ah Ying obtained in the historical development, thus revealed the value and the status which should have in the study history of historical documents.First, the reasons for his becoming the pioneer worker in historical documents of the new literature were to be discussed. Through combing the first ten-year and the second ten-year cultural context, the literature background and historical documents background and the related data statistics as well as the individual factor analysis of Ah Ying, the conclusion was to be drawn: Ah Ying became the pioneer worker is the historical choice as well as his personal pursue.Next, Ah Ying's historical documents thoughts and its foresightedness would be elaborated. The discussion would be carried on mainly from two aspects, one is Ah Ying's historical documents ideas with the time synchronization and the other is his historian broad-judged vision and standard. He quiltly early realized and the elaborated importance of the new literature editions, maturely and gradually forming his own developed style in choosing the articles. He not merely judged the value of the literature historical documents by literariness and the artistry, boldly defined the value of the works abandoned by the writers themselves and elaborated the correspondence historical reference value of the diaries and letters. While confirmed the value of the "Instructive Figure of Literary Arena", he fully realized the special value and the independent moral character of the historical documents work and regarded it as an academic enterprise as equal as the literature creation.Then, the research technique of Ah Ying's historical documents study would be discussed. Ah Ying highlighted the whole development relation method in the long-term historical documents practice and reconstructed...