西方现代派背后的“中国故事”:现代派研究专家钱兆明教授访谈录

The“Chinese Story”Behind Western Modernism:An Interview With Professor Qian Zhaoming

长期以来,英美学术界的文学研究对跨民族、跨学科和跨媒介的研究都持欢迎态度,这也是未来的文学研究的趋势。钱兆明教授利用他自身的多元文化背景,创造性地开辟了现代派文学研究的新领域,即阐释美国现代派诗歌与亚洲文化,特别是中国文化之间的关系:从庞德和威廉斯与中国文化和诗歌的关系开始,到庞德、史蒂文斯和摩尔与中国绘画的关系,再到亚洲文化和艺术对晚期现代派的影响,这些构成了他早期、中期和新近的学术成果的发展路径。这些成就通过展示西方文学中隐藏的“中国故事”,对于学术界重新评估现代派诗歌产生了深远的影响。这种影响可能堪比萨义德在20世纪70年代开辟的“东方主义”研究和庞德在20世纪对中国诗歌的“重新发明”。在这次访谈中,钱兆明教授不仅追溯了他作为教授的发展历程,而且详细说明了他的研究项目的意义,分享了他的成功经验。

For quite some time,literary studies in the Anglo-American world have welcomed transnational,interdisciplinary,and intermedia approaches,which will remain the trend for years to come.Taking advantage of his multicultural background,Professor Qian Zhaoming has innovatively trailblazed a new field in modernist studies by illuminating the cross-cultural and inter-artistic relations between American modern poetry and Asian cultures,particularly Chinese culture:from his early studies on Pound’s and Williams’s engagement with Chinese poetry and culture to the mid-career projects on Pound’s,Stevens’s,and Moore’s response to Chinese arts,to the recent studies on the impact of Asian cultures and arts on late Modernism.This trajectory of achievements has brought far-reaching impact on the ways that the scholars and readers worldwide reevaluate modernist poetry,just as Edward Said trailblazed the new field of Orientalism in the late 1970s and Ezra Pound“reinvented”Chinese poetry at the turn of the 20th century,by showcasing how to tell behind-the-scene“Chinese stories”in Western literature.In the interview,Professor Qian not only traced his path of development as a professor and a scholar and explained the significance of his research program,but he also shared his experiences of success.