作为中国现代文人理想境界的一种标志,陈寅恪先生无论是在其生前还是身后,对于中国知识阶层的绝大多数而言,仍然是高山仰止、景行行止的。然而,我们目前领略到的陈先生之论著,绝大多数都是有点儿“出乎意料”的纯粹国学领域的成果,从针对中古中国的《隋唐政治制度述略》、《元 As a sign of the idealist realm of modern Chinese writers, Mr. Chen Yinkui, both before and after his death, remains aloof from the vast majority of the Chinese intelligentsia. However, most of the treatises we now appreciate about Mr. Chen are a bit “unexpected” in the field of purely national studies. From the summary of the political system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties toward Middle China,