Abstract:

As one of the key reformers, Yang Shenxiu was not only keen on submitting memorials to the throne, which rendered a huge impact on the proceedings of the Reform Movement, but also a crucial participant in the “Conspiracy to Besiege the Old Summer Palace” (or “weiyuanmimou”). His memorial and the attached file presented to the throne the day before the coup d’état of 1898, in which he advocated “soliciting talents” from Japan and “forging alliance” with Japan, Britain and the U.S.，suggested sending personnel to the Palace for the search of gold cellars. The memorial aroused the Empress Dowager Cixi’s acute vigilance and constituted a direct and vital stimulus to the coup. The newly discovered articles written by Yang Shenxiu displayed his specialty in balancing Han Learning and Song Learning, and his expertise in epigraphy and textual research. In the realm of the compilation of local records, he was deeply influenced by Dai Zhen’s studies. Meanwhile, apart from being nourished from the traditional scholarship, the efforts of establishing the geographical coordinates based on distance and combining the theory of “the Procession of Stars” with the traditional method of matching the twenty-eight stars with different regions on earth (or the theory of “xingye”) illustrated Yang’s passion for new Western knowledge, which made him a pioneer among his fellow scholars. In the domain of poetry, Yang’s poems, which followed the genre of the poetry of Song Dynasty yet avoided the tendency of falling into rigidness and unnaturalness, demonstrated his vision of assimilating the virtues of different schools of thought and learning.

摘要：

作为戊戌维新派的核心人物之一，杨深秀不仅积极上书言事，对变法的实际进程产生重大影响，还是“围园密谋”的关键参与者。他于戊戌政变前一天所呈的一折一片，主张“借才”，与英美日“合邦”，奏请派员入圆明园搜金窖等事，导致慈禧对维新派的高度警觉，对政变的发生产生了直接而重要的刺激作用。新发现的几篇杨深秀佚文，显示了其平衡汉宋的倾向和精于金石考证的特长；其方志学编纂深受戴震影响，在继承传统学问的同时也积极吸纳西学新知，不仅创立了以距离为单位的地理坐标系统，还尝试将“恒星东移”说同传统的星野学说相结合，走在时代前列；其在诗歌方面既宗崇宋诗，又不走硬涩极端，具有博采众长、融冶各家的格局与气度。