루쉰魯迅의 중국 고대소설 연구 4— 일본 학자 시오노야 온鹽谷溫과의 학문적 교류

Abstract

There are those who were aware of the value and importance of the novel in the times that the novel was not treated as well as it should be. Shionoya On was one of them and his representative book, The Discourse of Introduction of Chinese Literature was the significant work of unprecedented meaning at the time. He was born in the family that made Chinese Studies a family business and had been strictly taught a traditional Confucianism from his childhood. After college, he went Europe to be received the Western learning. In that process he could be given a new insight and look at the academic world from a fresh viewpoint. The result is The Discourse of Introduction of Chinese Literature. Shionoya On professionally wrote the drama and the novel that had not been unnoticed until then in the chapter 5 and 6 of this book. Especially, the chapter 6 systematically classified the Chinese novels as much as it could be called the first history of Chinese Novels and it brought up a great sensation in China. Thus it was translated into Chinese earlier on. The most influential ones were Guo Xifen’s partial translation of the chapter 6 of it and Sun Lianggong’s complete translation. Lu Xun, the writer of The Brief History of Chinese Novels which has been the representative history of Chinese novels that has an absolute influence until now, also recognized Shionoya On’s The Discourse of Introduction of Chinese Literature. They respected each other as a fellow scholar to walk the same road and continued a scholastic relationship, that is, exchanging newly found novels through Karashima Takeshi, the student of Shionoya On. But after 1930’s, they went a different ways due to the situation of that time they faced, accordingly they grew apart each other.