《中國小說史略》日韓傳播現狀考

Abstract

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction occupies a very important pioneering position in the writing history of Chinese fiction history, and has exerted important influence in the fields of teaching and scientific study so far. Needless to say in China, the dissemination in East Asia’s Japan and South Korea also reflects part of the influence of the book. So far, there is no study result on the collation and analysis of this situation. Therefore, this article carefully searched authoritative academic information databases such as CINII in Japan and RISS in South Korea, and mainly sorted out the original books, annotations, translations, and studies related to A Brief History of Chinese Fiction collected by major university libraries in the two countries. The results roughly grasp the current understanding of the book in the academic circles of the two countries. Japan’s collection, translation and stury of A Brief History of Chinese Fiction were all earlier than South Korea’s, but South Korea surpassed Japan in terms of the number of collections, update rate and frequency of translation and publication. However, in terms of study intensity, whether it is the collection of Chinese native annotations, or the study menbers, the scale and quantity of results, Japan has an advantage. Nevertheless, judging from the available data, compared with other Chinese works, Japan and South Korea have invested less in the study of A Brief History of Chinese Fiction.