从多元文化到综合文化——兼论儒家文化与新加坡经济现代化的关系

From Multi-culture to the Integrated One--A Concurrent Discussion of the Relationship betweenConfucianist Culture and Singapore's Economic Modernization

关于新加坡独立后经济快速发展的原因,我国学术界在不同程度上强调儒家文化对新加坡经济发展的巨大推动作用。实际上,新加坡政府在不同时期有不同的文化取向。从总体上讲、经历了从多元文化向综合文化的发展,儒家文化不是唯一对新加坡现代化产生影响的文化。新加坡现代化的成功首先是西方直接输入资本主义方式的结果,儒家文化的若干传统因子则起到了协调和适应的作用,使资本主义移植到新加坡后,发展出了比西方形态资本主义更具增长动力的东方形态资本主义。

Singapore has become a highly modernized nation since its independence in 1965. Chinese scholars attribute the rapid growth of Singapore's economy to the enormous impetus of Confu-cianist culture. Rather, Singapore government has taken on different cultural orientations, at different time, from multi-culture to integrated one. And Confucianist culture is but one alternative that greatly affects Singapores modernization. The success of the modernization in Singapore is primarily a direct consequence of the input of capitalism by the West. Cultural elements of Confucianism, though, help to harmonize and accommodate. That is why the transplanted capitalism turns to be a more dynamic 0-riental capitalism than its Occidental counterpart.