中国学术之现代性及其历史境遇——以王国维的戏曲研究为例

The Modernity of Chinese Scholarship and Its Historical Situatedness——Taking the Example of Wang Guowei's Drama Studies

清末民初 ,王国维不断地尝试在新的学术交流条件下与世界进行对话、并致力于一种“世界学术”的建设 ;但同时 ,域外的学术界却在寻找一种中国本土的声音和学术权威 ,从而最终成就了中国现代戏曲的开创之作———《宋元戏曲史》。考察王国维戏曲研究的历史境遇 ,将有助于我们了解中国现代学术机制的转变 ,并进而反思“现代史观”和“民族主义”

At the turn of the twentieth century Wang Guowei strove to engage in a dialogue with the world in new conditions of scholarly exchange, in an attempt to establish a “global scholarship,” while scholars outside China saw in Wang an “authentic” Chinese voice and source of intellectual authority. Wang Guowei's pioneering work in the field of drama studies, his History of Song and Yuan Drama, was a product of these disparate historical forces. Examining the production and historical situatedness of Wang Guowei's drama studies will shed light not only on mechanisms of the production of modern scholarship, but also on recurrent themes in modern Chinese scholarship such as the notion of a “modern historiography” and nationalism.