2025年1月11日 星期六

Nelson I. Wu(吳訥孫, 鹿橋)延陵乙園:從《未央歌》說起 (李弘祺);延陵乙園主人(許定銘)

 


Nelson I. Wu(吳訥孫, 鹿橋)延陵乙園:從《未央歌》說起 (李弘祺);延陵乙園主人(許定銘)



延陵乙園主人
    
儘管鹿橋出版了《未央歌》等四部作品,加上英文版專業著述《中國與印度建築》(紐約,1963),和不少未結集的論文、雜寫,但對於一個從事研究及創作歷六十年的學人來說,還是比較少的。原來鹿橋把他大半生的精力,用於建設他個人的「伊甸園」——延陵乙園。
    
一九四九年,鹿橋在耶魯大學取得美術史碩士學位後,半工讀博士之餘,在康乃迪克州自訂名「且溪」的地方,開始建造個人的靈修地「延陵乙園」,這個大莊園有山溪、有樹林、有巨石……,還有他親自拾取舊木建成的小房子,用血汗開墾的小路。鹿橋在美國東岸打造了一處讓文人雅叙的樂園,每年六月初接待從各方聞風來的文人雅士,在此文酒之會,據說每次聚會多至數百人。延陵乙園是鹿橋畢生的傑作,是他的理想國。
    
鹿橋一九九六年罹患直腸癌,延至二○○二年在波士頓逝世,世侄女作家樸月和他四位兒女,搜集歷年來所藏文件、照片數十幀,又徵得多篇由楚戈、雷戊白、張素貞……等人寫鹿橋的文章,並由他的好友謝宗憲撰鹿橋的小傳及年表,以〈鹿橋小傳〉、〈幸會鹿橋〉、〈《未央歌》人物寫真〉、〈《未央歌〉》書評、〈來鴻去雁〉……輯成這本厚五百頁的《鹿橋歌未央》(台灣商務印書館,2006),為他一生劃上了句號。

――2011年1月10日

鹿橋和他的書
    
出生於北平的福建閩侯人鹿橋(1919~2002)原名吳訥孫,一九四二年畢業於西南聯大外文系,得獎學金入耶魯大學轉修美術史,並於一九五四年得藝術史博士,後任教於各著名大學多年。鹿橋在西南聯大就讀時,已熱愛寫作,一九四○年參加上海《西風》雜誌的徵文比賽,以〈我的妻子〉奪第八名,排名遠超得第十二名的林適存和第十三名的張愛玲。
    
這刺激起他開始執筆寫擲地有聲的巨著《未央歌》,這本數十萬言,以西南聯大學生作背景的長篇小說,一九四五年在耶魯就讀時完稿,但要等到一九五九年才能在香港人生出版社初版,一九六七年由台灣商務印書館刋行後廣為人知,自此印行數十版,長居中文小說暢銷書前列數十年。其後他又出版了小說《人子》(台灣遠景,1974)、散文集《懺情書》(台灣遠景,1975)和《市廛居》(台灣時報,1998)。
    
《懺情書》收的是他在昆明時期寫的日記、小說和雜寫,但《市廛居》卻是他在美國寄居數十年的生活雜記,可了解鹿橋去國多年的心境。全書近二十萬字,收《市廛居》、《利涉大川》和《人物憶往》三輯共三十多篇雜文。最值得一提的是回憶張愛玲的〈委屈、冤枉,追慰一代才女張愛玲〉,以同代人的視角寫張愛玲,頗值得張迷們參考。

――2010年12月30日

哈佛!哈佛!

  • 作者:張鳳
  • 出版社:九歌
  • 出版日期:1998年
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  •  封面是吳訥孫題的約1994    扉頁有吳先生的完整題詞.
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延陵乙園主人
儘管鹿橋出版了《未央歌》等四部作品,加上英文版專業著述《中國與印度建築》(紐約,1963),和不少未結集的論文、雜寫,但對於一個從事研究及創作歷六十年的學人來說,還是比較少的。原來鹿橋把他大半生的精力,用於建設他個人的「伊甸園」——延陵乙園。
一九四九年,鹿橋在耶魯大學取得美術史碩士學位後,半工讀博士之餘,在康乃迪克州自訂名「且溪」的地方,開始建造個人的靈修地「延陵乙園」,這個大莊園有山溪、有樹林、有巨石……,還有他親自拾取舊木建成的小房子,用血汗開墾的小路。鹿橋在美國東岸打造了一處讓文人雅叙的樂園,每年六月初接待從各方聞風來的文人雅士,在此文酒之會,據說每次聚會多至數百人。延陵乙園是鹿橋畢生的傑作,是他的理想國。
鹿橋一九九六年罹患直腸癌,延至二○○二年在波士頓逝世,世侄女作家樸月和他四位兒女,搜集歷年來所藏文件、照片數十幀,又徵得多篇由楚戈、雷戊白、張素貞……等人寫鹿橋的文章,並由他的好友謝宗憲撰鹿橋的小傳及年表,以〈鹿橋小傳〉、〈幸會鹿橋〉、〈《未央歌》人物寫真〉、〈《未央歌〉》書評、〈來鴻去雁〉……輯成這本厚五百頁的《鹿橋歌未央》(台灣商務印書館,2006),為他一生劃上了句號。
――2011年1月10日




 臺大校友第88期雙月刊目錄
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樸月(編著) 鹿橋歌未央,台灣:商務印書館,2006
該書有第一手資料
 鹿橋,原名吳訥孫,英文名Nelson Ikon Wu(Ikon是他的小名音譯)。1919年6月9日生于北京,先後就學于燕京大學、國立西南聯合大學、耶魯大學,1954年在耶魯大學取得美術史博士學位;又先後在舊金山大學、耶魯大學、聖路易斯華盛頓大學執教。 鹿橋是一位“左手寫詩篇右手寫論文”的學者,集學術理性與文學感性于一身的作家;他不僅對中國藝術史的研究頗有建樹,還著有《未央歌》、《人子》、《懺情書》《市廛集》等暢銷作品。 2002年3月19日鹿橋病逝于波士頓,享每83歲。

香港文學史家司馬長風先生在他的《中國新文學史》中把鹿橋的《未央歌》看作抗日戰爭和戰後期間長篇小說的“四大巨峰”之一。另外三部是:巴金的《人間三部曲》、沈從文的《長河》、無名氏的《無名書》。而《未央歌》“尤使人神往”,“讀來幾乎無一字不悅目、無一句不賞心”。當年,鹿橋是靠朋友找紙張,連鋼筆墨水都得加水調稀。為了躲警報,他的寫作多半是在防空洞裏完成的。自1945年完成之後,由于戰爭等原因,這部作品分別于1959年和1967年才在香港自印千冊留百冊、臺灣版由商務印書館印行。





The ideogram in the modern Chinese dilemma by Nelson Ikon Wu (Unknown Binding - 1957)

Chinese and Indian architecture: The city of man, the mountain of God, and the realm of the immortals (Great ages of world architecture)
by Nelson Ikon Wu (Author)

  • Unknown Binding: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Studio Vista (1968)

(Hardcover - Jun 1963)這本書四十年前台灣有翻印


Tung ChÊ»i-chÊ»ang, 1555-1636: Apathy in government and fervor in art by Nelson Ikon Wu (Unknown Binding - 1962) 這篇"論文"有台灣翻譯

The intellectual aristocrat and justice in art;: A cautionary story for the West about those Chinese masters who became their own patrons and, over the centuries, their own heroes

The intellectual aristocrat and justice in art;: A cautionary story for the West about those Chinese masters who became their own patrons and, over the centuries, their own heroes by Nelson Ikon Wu (Unknown Binding - 1962)吳訥孫先生可能有不少短篇文章 譬如說為日本二玄社的董其昌的導論


record.wustl.edu/2002/03-29-02/obit.html

Nelson I. Wu, professor emeritus, 82

By Liam Otten

Nelson Ikon Wu, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scholar of Asian art and architecture, died Tuesday, March 19, 2002, of cancer at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Brookline, Mass. He was 82.

Wu, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Chinese Culture in Arts & Sciences, came to the University in 1965, becoming a key figure for the promotion of Asian art in St. Louis and, in 1971, a founder of the Asian Art Society. He was named professor emeritus in 1984.
Additionally, Wu was a best-selling author in China and Taiwan, writing under the pen name Lu Ch'iao. His novel Song Never to End (1958), about the friendships between four young people during the Second Sino-Japanese War, has sold more than 500,000 copies and in 1991 was voted most influential book of the 1950s by readers of the Taiwan-based newspaper China Times, the nation's largest daily.
"Nelson was an extremely charismatic figure with a large following on campus and in St. Louis," said Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts and director the Gallery of Art. "Every year around Christmas, he would give a lecture celebrating Pan-Asian spirituality that filled Steinberg Auditorium."
Born June 9, 1919, in Peking, Wu earned a bachelor's degree from the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming in 1942 and came to the United States in 1945. He attended the New School for Social Research in New York before earning both a master's and doctorate in art history from Yale University, in 1949 and 1954, respectively.
While at Yale, Wu met the former Mu-lien Hsueh, a Wellesley College graduate also born in Peking. The couple wed in 1951.
Wu taught at Yale, San Francisco State College and Koyoto University in Japan before coming to St. Louis.
His many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Research Scholarship. In 1998, Washington University and the Saint Louis Art Museum inaugurated the annual Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture.
Wu is survived by Mu-lien and four children -- daughter Chao-ting and sons Chao-ming, Chao-ping and Chao-ying.
A small family service was held March 22. Memorial contributions may be made to the Washington University East Asian Library Nelson I. Wu Memorial Book Fund, Campus Box 1061.



看一下紀念他的第6屆講座之簡介

Lothar von Falkenhausen delivers Washington University's Nelson Wu Lecture

UCLA Art Historian speaks on "The Musical Archaeology of Ancient China: A Presentation of Art and Music"

By Clayton Dube

Lothar von Falkenhausen, professor of art history, delivered the Sixth Annual Nelson I. Wu Memorial Lecture on Asian Art and Culture at Washington University on October 23, 2003. Prof. Von Falkenhausen's presentation focused on bronze bells and music making in China from ancient times to the present.
Music was a critical part of state rituals in China. Different Chinese states had their own tonal systems and inscriptions on bells include markers indicating the tones they were capable of. This is a technological marvel, according to Prof. von Falkenhausen, as modern bell makers cannot be sure of a bell's tone prior to its completion. Among the most stunning of the surviving bells are those excavated in 1978 from the 4th century BCE tomb of Marquis Yi. It appears that musicians could use these bells to replicate the tonal systems of other states to honor visiting dignitaries. These bells were capable of two tones each, a capability that bell-makers seem to have lost in the ensuing century.
Prof. von Falkenhausen joined the UCLA faculty in 1993 after teaching at Stanford University and UC Riverside. He earned his bachelor's degree at Bonn University and took his master's degree and doctorate at Harvard University. Editor of the Journal of East Asian Archaeology, Prof. von Falkenhausen's many publications include his 1993 book Suspended Music (University of California Press), and articles and book chapters, including "The Waning of the Bronze Age: Material Culture and Social Developments, 770-481 BC" in the Cambridge History of Ancient China. Since 1999, Prof. von Falkenhausen has served as the co-director of a UCLA-Beijing University archaeological project examining Yangzi River Basin salt works. During his visit to Washington University he made a seperate presentation on the current excavation underway along the Ganjing River, a Yangzi tributary.
Nelson Ikon Wu was a Washington University professor of art and architecture, known for his extensive work promoting interest in and understanding of Asian art. He's was a widely published writer of fiction under his Chinese pen name Lu Chiao. His novel Song Never to End was published in 1958 and sold more than half a million copies. Prof. Wu passed away in March, 2002 at age 82. The talk was co-sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum.
This report draws upon information from Jenny Bazzetta's report in the spring 2004 newsletter of the East Asian Studies program at Washington University (distributed Nov. 2004) and the Washington University Record.
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