箋註陶淵明集

Jiānzhù Táo Yuānmíng jí 箋註陶淵明集

Annotated Collection of Táo Yuānmíng by 陶潛 (撰), 李公煥 (箋)

About the work

Jiānzhù Táo Yuānmíng jí 箋註陶淵明集 in ten juǎn is the principal SòngYuán annotated edition of the Táo Yuānmíng jí 陶淵明集 (KR4b0008), with running annotations by Lǐ Gōnghuàn 李公煥. Lǐ’s annotations gather the cumulative Sòng commentarial tradition (Sū Shì 蘇軾, Huáng Tíngjiān 黃庭堅, Sū Zhé 蘇轍, Jiāng Jūn 江君, Wú Yīn 吳因, Sī Mǎ Wēngōng 司馬溫公 etc.) on each piece, plus the yuán xù by Xiāo Tǒng, the Wǔ xiào zhuàn 五孝傳, and the Sìbā mù 四八目 (= Shèng xián qún fǔ lù 聖賢羣輔錄) — all the apparatus that the Sìkù compilers stripped from their re-edition. As such it is the primary witness for the late-Sòng received form of the Táo collection, and the standard text used by YuánMíng scholarship before the Sìkù re-edit. The SBCK base print is the Yuán Cuìyánjīngshè 翠巖精舍 cut.

Abstract

The Sòng-era reception of Táo Qián, anchored in Sū Shì’s famous Hè Táo shī 和陶詩 series and Huáng Tíngjiān’s celebrated literary judgments, demanded a working annotated edition; Lǐ Gōnghuàn 李公煥 (fl. late Sòng to early Yuán, possibly late 13th c.) produced what became the standard one in the jiānzhù (interpolated annotation) format. The exact dating of Lǐ’s edition is not securely fixed: he is conventionally dated to the late Southern Sòng on the strength of his quotations from Sòng commentators only and the Yuán-period Cuìyánjīngshè 翠巖精舍 print of his text; the bracket adopted here (1227–1290) reflects this approximate window. Lǐ retains the Wǔ xiào zhuàn and Sìbā mù — texts the Sìkù later judged Northern-Qí forgeries planted in the collection by Yáng Xiūzhī 陽休之 — so this edition also serves as the principal source for those disputed para-textual materials.

The opening preface preserved here is Xiāo Tǒng’s Táo Yuānmíng jí xù 陶淵明集序, identical in substance to that in KR4b0008 but with the Sòng-print spelling variants of the Cuìyánjīngshè tradition (e.g., xià dú 下讀 with idiosyncratic guǎluè 寡略). The jiānzhù sit immediately under each piece in interlinear small print: every major Sòng response to Táo’s verse is collected, making the volume a SòngYuán “variorum” of Táo reception.

This edition is conventionally ranked alongside the (lost) Tāng Hàn 湯漢 Táo jīng zhù 陶靖節注 (1241) as the foundational annotated tradition of Táo. Tāng Hàn’s annotations are partly recoverable from later quotations; Lǐ’s are the only complete SòngYuán jiānzhù surviving in book form. From this volume descend the Míng Hé Mèngchūn 何孟春 commentary, the Qīng Wú Zhāntài 吳瞻泰 huì zhù 彙註, and the modern critical editions of Lǔ Qìnlì 逯欽立 and Yuán Xíngpèi 袁行霈 (which all collate this edition by sigla).

Translations and research

• Wendy Swartz. 2008. Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427–1900). HUP. The principal English-language reception history; treats Lǐ Gōnghuàn’s jiān-zhù as one of the three canonical Sòng-Yuán annotation traditions (alongside Tāng Hàn and Hé Mèngchūn).
• Yuán Xíngpèi 袁行霈. 2003. Táo Yuānmíng jí jiān zhù 陶淵明集箋註. Zhōnghuá. Modern critical edition that takes Lǐ as one of its principal sigla.
• Wú Yún 吳雲. 1981. Lǐ shì jiān zhù Táo Yuānmíng jí kǎo zhù 李氏箋註陶淵明集考註. Shàoxīng wénxué — focused study of Lǐ Gōnghuàn’s editorial work.
• Charles Yim-tze Kwong. 1994. Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity. UMich. Discusses the Sòng-era reception underpinning Lǐ’s annotations.
• Yáng Yǒng 楊勇. 1971. Táo Yuānmíng jí jiào jiān 陶淵明集校箋. Wú-zhōng — uses Lǐ Gōnghuàn’s text as principal SBCK collation base.

Other points of interest

The editorial division of labor between KR4b0008 (the Sìkù re-edition stripped of disputed paratexts) and KR4b0009 (the SBCK SòngYuán jiānzhù with all paratexts) is significant for any text-historical study: KR4b0008 represents the Sìkù compilers’ philological judgment on what is “really” Táo’s, while KR4b0009 represents the late-Sòng received form including the Wǔ xiào zhuàn and Sìbā mù — Northern Qí additions that YuánMíng readers regarded as authentically Táo’s. Modern scholarship sides with the Sìkù on the forgery question but uses KR4b0009 for any reception-history work because of its rich annotation apparatus.

Links

• Tao Yuanming (Wikipedia)
• Wendy Swartz, Reading Tao Yuanming (HUP, 2008)
• Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §27.6 (SòngYuán annotated literary collections).