Abstract:

The western academic circles have had rich experience in textual criticism and textual research. By contrast, The Chinese academic circles haven’t had much in these fields. The book Selected Works on Western Textual Criticism contains seven representative articles on the western textual criticism. The present essay offers a summary of the book, covering the principle, method and genre of the western textual criticism, and the similarities and differences in textual criticism between the Chinese and Western academic circles, which will offer some enlightenment and reference for quantitative research of the textual criticism in our country.

Key words: The Western Textual Criticism, Proofreader, School