Yang Shuda's Diary (1948-1954)

Yang Shuda (1885-1956), a famous linguist. He has been engaged in the research and teaching of Chinese grammar and philology all his life. He is good at oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and other texts and exegesis, phonology, grammar and rhetoric research. After the founding of New China, he was hired as a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Hunan Provincial Institute of Literature and History. Yang Shuda wrote 51 diaries from August 1920 to early February 1956. This is the 46th volume (November 1, 1948 - September 30, 1949) and the 50th volume (November 21, 1952 - May 18, 1954), so it is named Yang Shuda's Diary (1948-1954). The diary is very rich in content. It preserves Yang Shuda's records of researching ancient writings and documents, as well as the main points of his correspondence with Chen Yinque, Guo Moruo and other scholars, especially his opinions and evaluations of famous figures at that time, all written in the diary. The venomous comments and bluster are the first-hand materials for the study of modern academic history and education history. In order to facilitate the readers to read and use this compilation and publication, in addition to punctuation, the following work has also been done: firstly, he made simple annotations on the characters, place names, and Changsha dialect; secondly, he compiled an index of names of people; thirdly, before the book, there were photos of Yang Shuda and his family, letters from friends and friends, and the original manuscript of the diary; fourthly, he drew the family tree of Mr. Yang Shuda.