戏曲理论家曲六乙先生百万余字的三卷本巨著《中国少数民族戏剧通史》一年前面世。这部几乎耗尽他心血的鸿篇巨制,集史学、艺术学、宗教学、民俗学等学科于一体,填补了国内少数民族戏剧史研究缺乏通史的空白和缺憾,也是中国“戏剧戏曲学”学科建设全面深入发展和进一步走向成熟的标志。上世纪六十年代,曲六乙走进少数民族戏剧世界时,就萌生了写一部少数民族戏剧史的念头,弥补这个领域的一个空白。那时起,他开始阅览有关古籍文献,去边疆地区考察,广泛收集资料。半个多世纪里,无论日子多苦,曲六乙从未放弃自己的学术梦想,直到新世纪伊始,这项任务被列入国家社会科 Opera theorist Qu Liuyi millions of words of the three volumes of this book, “Chinese Minority Theater General History” published a year ago. This masterpiece almost exhausted his efforts, set the history, art, religion, folklore and other disciplines in one, to fill gaps in the history of the study of minority nationalities lack of history and shortcomings, but also China Discipline construction in-depth development and further towards maturity mark. In the 1960s, when Qu Liu Yi entered the minority drama world, it inspired the idea of ​​writing a history of ethnic minorities to make up for the blank in this field. Since then, he began to read the ancient literature, to visit the border areas, extensive collection of information. For more than half a century, no matter how hard it is, Qu Liu has never given up its academic dream until the beginning of the new century. This task has been included in the National Social Science Section