围绕清水江文书的整理与出版工作,催生了一批有分量的学术研究成果,形成了一支地域涵盖面颇为广泛的学术研究队伍,代表了利用新材料以研究新问题的学术发展新趋势。清水江学已可望成为极为重要的地域研究显学。近期召开的清水江文书与中国地方社会国际学术研讨会,便是清水江学研究的重大标志性历史事件。大量的相关研究成果均足以提示现代学人,我们固然要从中心来认知中国,但也有必要从周边来解释中国。中国几千年的大一统立体政治格局,特别是多元一体的复杂文明形态,决定了地方史总是国家史视域普遍涵盖下的地方史,国家史则是广泛提炼了地方史内容的国家史,即使对村落社区特殊材料的分析或解读,折射出来的也是对中国乡土社会的普遍关怀与认知,与对大传统的不断深入探讨和分析一样,都是我们更好地走进中国文化广袤深邃的世界的重要法门。
With the categorization and publication of the Qingshuijiang Instruments,a batch of academically powerful research achievements have been spawned,and a group of researchers covering different areas of study have been formed,which represents a new academic developmental trend———to focus on new problems with new materials.The study of Qingshuijiang may become a very important regional study in the prominent subject.The International Symposium held recently on Qingshuijiang Instruments and Local Societies in China is a major land-mark of historical events.A large number of relevant research results have prompted the modern scholars that we should definitely come to know China with the materials from the center,but we cannot overlook the discoveries from its bordering areas,for they are also very important resources for people to understand China.The unified political structure of China for thousands of years,especially its multi-civilized complex unity determines that the local history is always a history in the perspective of the whole national history,while the national history is an integrated whole covering every refined part of the local history.Even if it is the analysis or interpretation of only a special part of information from a special village or community,what it reflects is also the great concern and recognition of the whole rural areas in China,which is the same in nature of the continuous exploration and analysis of the macro tradition of China.This is a realistic approach for us to go into the vast areas and deep lev-els of the Chinese culture.