甲午中日战争的“图像史学”:历史呈现及其“虚无主义”叙事批判

The"Image Historiography"of the Sino-Japanese War:Historical Presentation and Its Narrative Criticism of"Nihilism"

随着“读图时代”和“视觉转向”的来临,以前曾秘藏或私藏于图书馆、美术馆和个人的甲午战争相关图像史料也渐次被披露和展出,为推进甲午战争研究开辟出了一个新的面向。甲午战争相关摄影写真和锦绘版画,既是对甲午战争之史实的一种记录方式,其本身亦为甲午战争历史本身的组成部分。通过对甲午战争相关锦绘版画的生产和流通之考察,对其历史呈现方式、图像叙述的“文明”逻辑以及“虚无主义”表象与本质予以解櫫和批判,以使得“甲午战争史像”之呈现愈加具体、生动、丰富、立体和多元。

With the advent of"the age of reading pictures"and"visual turn",the historical materials of im-ages related to the Sino-Japanese War,which were previously hidden in libraries,art galleries or pri-vate individuals,have been gradually disclosed and exhibited.This opens up a new research direction for promoting the study of the Sino-Japanese War.The photography and the Nishikie prints related to the Sino-Japanese War are not only a way to record the historical facts of the War,but also an integral part of the history itself.By exploring the production and circulation of the Nishikie prints related to the Sino-Japanese War,this paper reveals and criticizes the representation and essence of"civilization"logic and"nihilism"of their historical presentation and image narration,so as to make the"historical images of the Sino-Japanese War"more specific,vivid,abundant,solid and diversified.