关于观念性理解儒学之于日本的一些思考——《东亚的王权与思想》书评

Some Thoughts on the Conceptual Understanding of Confucianism in Japan——Book Review of Kingship and Thought in East Asia

渡边浩在《东亚的王权与思想》一书中,从“广义”的思想出发,按照比较研究的视野联系中国、韩国的文化内涵与特征,映射出日本“国学”的独特型态。其独到而细致的叙述,对儒学在日本的影响以及儒学与日本近代化的关系等命题,提出了新颖而巧妙的见解,这在一定程度上挑战了我国大众对这些问题的传统认知。笔者希望通过对渡边浩一书部分章节具体论述的探究,思考传统国人观念性理解下对儒学之于日本影响的认识偏差,亦尝试将渡边浩的一些观察置于中国语境下,提出一些评述与反思。

Watanabe Hiroshi,in his book“Kingship and Thought in East Asia,”maps out the distinctive form of Japanese“nationalism”from the perspective of“generalization”and the cultural connotations and characteristics of China and Korea from the viewpoint of comparative study.This unique and detailed account is actually an innovative and ingenious challenge to the fact that Confucianism in Japan and Confucianism and Japanese modernization seem to have become commonly held empirical facts in our country.In this article,the author hopes that through the exploration of some chapters of Watanabe Hiroshi’s book,thinking about the bias of the traditional Chinese conceptual understanding of the influence of Confucianism on Japan,and also try to place some of Watanabe Hiroshi’s observations in the Chinese context,and put forward some commentaries and refl ections.