本文嘗試書寫一位活躍在清初文壇的著名詩人施閏章，希望藉著書寫其生命某些重要經驗，可以進一步探索關於記憶與認同的議題。本文將探索施閏章個人對家庭、祖先、家學的記憶與情感，說明他如何透過文字建構祖父施鴻猷的泰州傳人形象以及施家以理學孝友傳家的風貌。在他的文字描繪中，傳統儒者風範、泰州講學經世的理想與人物典型等社會文化的集體記憶都發揮了重要的作用。另一方面，本文也說明施閏章如何透過他自身的政治社會實力重塑祖父施鴻猷等人在宣城的文化地位，他對祖先和家庭的個人記憶與書寫如何有力地介入宣城公共書寫與建制之中，成為地方集體文化記憶的一部分。這個個案研究也讓我們看到個人記憶與集體記憶、「過去」與「現在」以某種複合而互相滲透的方式彼此連合。再者，本文也嘗試討論施閏章以怎樣的心態面對家學與自我──即理學家與詩人──的認同問題，說明他基本上以當時流行的陰□思想來涵攝「學道」與「為文」並統合他生命中不同的角色與行動。

This paper discusses how Shi Runzhang 施閏章, a famous poet in the early Qing, constructed his self-identity and the role of familial memory in that construction. Shi Runzhang was the grandson of Shi Hongyou 施鴻猷, a relatively unknown late Ming scholar in Xuancheng 宣城. After Shi Runzang became an official, he compiled and published his grandfather’s works, restored a local shrine honoring both him and his master Chen Lüxiang 陳履祥, and helped to enshrine his grandfather in the altar of local worthies. Shi Runzhang also wrote his family history and biographies of his grandfather’s circle of local scholars. His works later became the primary sources for the local gazetteer and were hence transformed into part of the collective memory of Xuancheng. On the one hand, Shi Runzhang’s personal political and cultural beliefs influenced his construction of the local history of Xuancheng. On the other, he used his literary skills to position his grandfather as the true heir of the Taizhou 泰州 school and to show how exemplary models of Confucian scholars played a role in shaping his grandfather. I hope this case study sheds light on our understanding of the complicated interaction between the public life of the early Qing period and individual memory and writing. Likewise, I hope to show how Shi Runzhang negotiated a personal identity as both a poet and a Lixue 理學 scholar, which was not necessarily contradictory but was full of tensions within the Lixue tradition, in part through his belief in the accumulation of good deeds and rewards.