徐霞客研究正深化广化,“徐学”建设将日趋成熟,这是去年岁末无锡徐霞客研究会首届学讨论会上传出的信息。从会议论文和近年来无锡徐学会研究成果,可以看出几个特点。首先,徐学研究领域扩大了。不仅是地理学、文学方面,讨论和研究还涉及到了社会政治思想、处世方式、家世、旅游学、饮食文化、生物学和人才学等许多领域,这是近几十年来的一个重大突破。其次,研究方法与手段也有所改进。一些学者运用比较方法代替以往的个案研究,如比较徐霞客与郦道元的贡献,比较徐霞客与郑和两大探险运动的异同,比较徐霞客与陶渊明的价值取向与处世方式等等,更为客观、辩证地评价了徐霞客其人其事。还有的会员将电脑引入了游记研究,引人注目。再次,研究层次增加了。对徐霞客精神与成就的普及宣传仍受重视,专题研究则 Xu Xiake research is deepening Guanghua, “Xu Xue” construction will be increasingly mature, this is the end of last year Wuxi Xu Xiake first seminar seminar on the message. From the conference essay and the research results of Wuxi Xu Society in recent years, we can see several characteristics. First of all, Xu Xue field of research has expanded. Not only in geography and literature, discussion and research have also touched on many fields such as social and political thinking, ways of life, family life, tourism, food culture, biology and human resources. This is a major breakthrough in recent decades. Second, research methods and means have also been improved. Some scholars use the comparative method to replace the previous case studies. For example, comparing the contribution of Xu Xiake and Huang Daoyuan, comparing the similarities and differences between Xu Xiake and Zheng He, comparing Xu Xiake with Tao Yuanming’s value orientation and behavior, Dialectically evaluate Xu Xiake others. There are members of the computer into the travel study, compelling. Third, the research level has increased. The popularization and publicity of Xu Xiake’s spirit and achievements is still being paid attention to, and special studies are