1934年,胡适在为陈垣《〈元典章〉校补释例》所作序中认为陈垣的校勘学“土法”与西方的新法并无多大分别,不同的是西方古写本保存多且方便使用,又有古译本可供校勘,故西方校勘学较中国发达。惜其未能深入论证1。直至2006年,余英时仍在文章里感叹中、西校勘学的比较问津者少2。最近几年有了少量对中、西校勘学理论进行比较的论文3,但以具体的中、西校勘学经典著作为对象的比较,目前还没有看到。本文欲以中国校勘学的经典之作——陈垣《校勘学释例》,和西方校勘学的经 In 1934, Hu Shih, in his preface to Chen Yuan’s “Annotated Annotations to Schools,” considered that Chen Yuan’s collation “Dao Fa” was not much different from the new Western law, except that the preservation of the ancient Western writings And easy to use, there are ancient translations for collation, so Western collation than China developed. Unfortunately, it failed to in-depth argument 1. Until 2006, when Yu Yingshi lamented the article still, the more frequently asked people who studied in the West Campus. In recent years, there have been a few papers on the comparative study of middle school and western school, but no comparison has been made with the specific classic works of middle school and western school. In this paper, we will take the classic work of Chinese collation - “Explanation of Collation of Chen Yuan” and "