瑶族文化经籍的海外传播、典藏与研究——全球记忆研究的视角

The Dissemination,Collection and Research of Yao Cultural and Religious Classics Overseas——A Perspective on Global Memory Studies

数百年来,瑶族文化经籍跟随它的主人漂洋过海,流布到世界各地,从中国与东南亚民族村寨中的手抄经书成为世界重要图书馆、博物馆和名牌大学研究所的典藏,从而演变成全球性的记忆资源,呈现出一幅波澜壮阔的中国山地民族文献遗产的世界传播史、典藏史与研究史。这不仅是离散族群研究的一个重要视角,为探究移居海外中国少数民族的迁徙史与文化史展开了一个新的研究领域,也是一个东方少数民族为全球记忆文献研究提供的典型样本,可促进东西方文化互鉴。

Over hundreds of years,Yao people cultural and religious classics have been disseminated worldwide from the Chinese mountain villages through the migration of the Yao people,and found their places,as hand-written books discovered in the mountain ethnic villages in Southeast Asia,in the collections of well-known libraries,museums and universities of the world,thus becoming a global memory resource,which presents a magnificent world dissemination,collection and research history of the cultural heritage of a Chinese mountain people.This is not only an important perspective for the studies of Diaspora groups,a new field to explore the migration and cultural history of Chinese ethnic minorities overseas,but also an exemplary case offered by an oriental ethnic minority for the study of global memory literatures,which can promote mutual appreciations between the East and the West.