Shāngǔ Wàijí shīzhù 山谷外集詩注
Annotated Outer-Collection Poems of [Huáng] Shān-gǔ [Tíng-jiān] by 黃庭堅 (撰), 史容 (注)
About the work
Shāngǔ Wàijí shīzhù 山谷外集詩注 in 17 juǎn is the principal Southern-Sòng annotated edition of Huáng Tíngjiān 黃庭堅 黃庭堅’s pre-Yuánfēng poetry — composed by Shǐ Róng 史容 史容 of Qīngyī (Sìchuān) — the companion-piece to Rèn Yuān 任淵’s Nèijí annotation KR4d0085. The Wàijí preserves Huáng’s poetry from Jiāyòu 6 / 1061 (age 17) to Yuánfēng 7 / 1084 — the yīnbǔ (paternal-privilege) entry-into-office period; the Sìchuān / Héběi tutoring / Yèxiàn magistrate / Tàihé magistrate / Dézhōu assignments — that is, before the central court appointment that opens the Nèijí. Stylistically the Wàijí is more directly Hán-Yù-and-Sū-Shì-influenced than the mature Jiāngxī-school manner of the Nèijí. Shǐ Róng’s annotation: completed in Jiādìng (1208–1224), prefaced by Qián Wénzǐ 錢文子 of Jìnlíng in Jiāpíng 1 / 1224. The KRP source is the SBCK reprint; not in the Sìkù WYG corpus separately (where it appears together with the Nèijí zhù KR4d0085 under V1114.1).
Tiyao
The KRP source is the SBCK reprint, which does not include the Sìkù tíyào. The Sìkù editors’ commentary on this work is preserved in the parallel Shāngǔ Nèijí shīzhù tíyào KR4d0085 — which treats Nèijí, Wàijí, and Biéjí annotations as a unified work attributed jointly to Rèn Yuān, Shǐ Róng, and Shǐ Jìwēn.
Abstract
Shāngǔ Wàijí shīzhù preserves the early phase of Huáng Tíngjiān’s poetic development — the period before the Yuányòu coalition and the consolidation of the mature Jiāngxī shīpài manner. The 17 juǎn organize chronologically from Jiāyòu 6 / 1061 — the year 17 Tàixué studies and the early Yìngxué poetic exercises — through the early-1080s Tàihé / Dézhōu phase. Lǐ Tóng 李彤 (Huáng’s zhìyǒu and Wàijí editor)‘s detailed editorial principles — preserved in his Wàijí postface — explicitly acknowledge that more than 50 pieces had been wrongly attributed to Huáng (and identified by Lǐ in others’ collections) and have been removed; that the qiánjí (= Nèijí) had had certain Huáng-deleted pieces (including Mù zhī bīnbīn); and that selection-and-rejection follows Lǐ’s own criteria. The Sìkù editors note that Shǐ Róng’s Jiādìng-period editorial intervention — over 110 years after Huáng’s death — means the Wàijí as we have it is no longer the recension Huáng himself selected. Bibliographically: the Wàijí annotation is the principal source for early-Huáng-Tíng-jiān studies, particularly his pre-Sū Shì-influence years. The Sòng-Lǐ-Tóng-edited Wàijí survived to the Yuán; the Shǐ-Róng-annotated Wàijí was first cut at Lúzhōu in Jiādìng (per Qián Wénzǐ’s preface). Dating bracket: Shǐ Róng’s Jiāpíng 1 / 1224 preface to the SBCK reprint (1929).
Translations and research
- Palumbo-Liu, David. 1993. The Poetics of Appropriation: The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian. Stanford UP. Treats both Nèi and Wài periods.
- Liú Wén-jūn 劉文龍. 1986. Huáng Tíng-jiān nián-pǔ jiào-bǔ 黃庭堅年譜校補. Standard chronology.
- Wú Yuán 吳鈞 et al. 1990. Shān-gǔ shī xí-zhèng 山谷詩繫證. Zhōng-huá. Synthesizes all three Sòng annotations.
Other points of interest
The Lǐ Tóng Wàijí postface — preserved in this annotation — is one of the more articulate Northern-Sòng/early-Southern-Sòng statements on the textual fragility of poetic biéjí: Lǐ’s specific identification of more than 50 pseudonymous poems found in others’ collections (and removed from this Wàijí on that basis) makes him an early practitioner of the kind of qízhēng (forgery-investigation) bibliographical work that became more systematic only in late-Míng / Qing.
Links
- Huang Tingjian (Wikidata)
- Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §28.1 (Sòng biéjí); §47 (Jiāngxī shīpài).