Liáng Jiāng Wéntōng wén jí 梁江文通文集
Liáng-period Collected Works of Jiāng Wéntōng (Jiāng Yān), Edited and Restored by 江淹 (撰), 葉樹廉 (輯校補)
About the work
Liáng Jiāng Wéntōng wén jí 梁江文通文集 in ten juǎn is the early-Qīng SBCK-base recension of Jiāng Yān’s collected works, edited and supplemented (jí jiào bǔ 輯校補) by Yè Shùlián 葉樹廉. It restores the older ten-juǎn division (closer to the original Liáng recension as reported by Jiāng’s zì xù) against the four-juǎn compaction of the Sìkù-WYG KR4b0015 Jiāng Wéntōng jí. Where the Sìkù-WYG four-juǎn edition (Liáng Bīn, 1758) is the authoritative critical edition of the late Qiánlóng tradition, this SBCK ten-juǎn edition is the textual ancestor of the older form known to the Suí and Táng bibliographies, and it preserves a different selection-and-ordering of pieces. Both editions are needed for a full Jiāng Yān recension.
Abstract
The transmission of Jiāng Yān’s collection in the Qīng splits into two distinct lines: (a) a four-juǎn line (Wāng Shìxián, Zhāng Pǔ, Liáng Bīn) consolidated by the Sìkù compilers as the WYG KR4b0015 Jiāng Wéntōng jí; and (b) a ten-juǎn line, the present Liáng Jiāng Wéntōng wén jí edited by Yè Shùlián 葉樹廉 — corresponding to the older ten-juǎn form attested in Jiāng’s own zì xù and partially recovered by Yè from older recension witnesses. The exact print date is not securely fixed; Yè Shùlián is conventionally dated to the late Míng / early Qīng on stylistic grounds, and the bracket here (1644–1722) covers the ShùnzhìKāngxī period. The SBCK reproduces this ten-juǎn edition as jí nos. 0596–0597.
For the canonical content see KR4b0015; this volume is best treated as a complementary edition, useful primarily for textual collation and for the older sequence of pieces (which the Sìkù-WYG re-organized). The principal modern edition (Yú Shàochū 俞紹初, Jiāng Wéntōng jí huì zhù 江文通集彙註, Zhōnghuá 1984) collates both editions.
Translations and research
See KR4b0015 for the substantive bibliography on Jiāng Yān. Specifically on the editorial divergence between the four-juǎn and ten-juǎn lines:
- Yú Shào-chū 俞紹初, ed. 1984. Jiāng Wéntōng jí huì zhù 江文通集彙註. Zhōnghuá. Treats both editions in its critical apparatus.
- Hú Zhī-jì 胡之驥, comp. 1599. Jiāng Wéntōng wén jí huì zhù 江文通文集彙註 (Wànlì-era variorum, reprinted Shànghǎi gǔjí 1980). The ancestor of the ten-juǎn line that Yè Shù-lián collated.
Other points of interest
The split between four-juǎn and ten-juǎn lines of Jiāng Yān’s collection is a useful case study of how Sìkù editorial consolidation could simplify and re-order older textual traditions. Modern critical scholarship treats the SBCK ten-juǎn form as the more conservative witness — closer to the LiángSuí transmission line — and the WYG four-juǎn form as the more aggressive editorial product (despite or because of its excellent collation apparatus).
Links
- Jiang Yan (Wikipedia)
- See KR4b0015 for full bibliographic apparatus.