中国神话学在新世纪的十年取得了两个较大的成绩:一是少数民族神话研究获得了更广泛的关注,中南民族大学与中国少数民族文学学会、中国社会科学院民族文学研究所联合主办了中国少数民族神话研讨会,集中体现了少数民族神话研究的影响与深度;二是神话学学科的教材建设取得了重大进展,先后有三部神话学教材在这个十年问世,标志着中国神话学学科建设已步入自觉时期。教材建设方面,北京师范大学教授、知名神话学家杨利慧博士的新著《神话和神话学》由于立足自身的学术实践,潜心探索神话学教育的理论框架问题,注重田野,融通世界,贯穿本科、硕士和博士的多层次教育,显现出“差异的神话学”的中国性,在国际学术语境和本土神话学教育格局中,都具有极大的学术张力和学科推动力。杨教授博学多识,一直从事神话学教学与研究,致力于中国神话学的学术交流与跨文化对话,是新世纪以来在国外神话学界享有良好声誉的中国神话学家,这一背景,为其神话学教材增添了开阔、丰满的国际色彩。本专栏为此邀请国内外十多名神话学者就杨教授具有开拓性的神话学教材展开讨论,用两期的篇幅,实现一种研究者与作者、中国与世界的神话学学术对话,以此来深入关照中国神话学学科建设的新机遇和新问题,并期待引起学术界更多的讨论。 Chinese mythology has made two major achievements in the ten years of the new century. One is that the research on the myth of ethnic minorities has gained more and more attention. The Central South University for Nationalities and the Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature Association jointly sponsored by the Institute of National Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Seminar on the Myths of Chinese Ethnic Minorities has focused on the influence and depth of mythological research in the ethnic minorities. The second is that significant progress has been made in the construction of textbooks for mythological subjects. Three mythological teaching materials have been published in this decade, marking the first phase of mythology Discipline construction has entered a conscious period. Teaching material construction, the Beijing Normal University professor, well-known mythologists Dr. Yang Lihui’s new “myth and mythology” based on its own academic practice, with great concentration to explore the theoretical framework of mythological education, focusing on the fields, through the world, through the undergraduate, The multi-level education of masters and PhDs shows that the Chinese nature of “Difference Mythology” has great academic tension and disciplinary impetus in the international academic context and the local mythological education pattern. Professor Yang has been engaged in the teaching and research of mythology for many years and has been engaged in academic exchange and intercultural dialogue in Chinese mythology. It is a Chinese mythologist who enjoys a good reputation in foreign mythology circles in the new century. Mythology textbook adds an open, full of international flavor. This column invites more than a dozen mythologists at home and abroad to discuss Professor Yang’s groundbreaking mythology textbooks and to use two periods to achieve a mythological academic dialogue between researchers and authors and between China and the world. To deeply examine the new opportunities and new problems in the discipline construction of Chinese mythology and look forward to arousing more discussions in academia.