帝国风化与世界秩序——清代海外竹枝词所见中国人的世界观

The empire’s humanization and the world order:focus on a special kind of poetry

从先秦时代起 ,对外部世界的想象一直主导中国人的世界秩序观 ,于是产生了诸多构想殊方世界的文字作品。这些作品 ,一方面反映了中国人渴望新知的倾向 ,另一方面却集中体现了“华夏中心论”和“文化中心主义”的传统偏见。这样的观念 ,至迟到晚清依然没有改变 ,当时人所作的诸多海外竹枝词 ,就是一个绝好例证 ,它们往往是带着这种观念写成 ,其笔下流露的依然多是想象的成分而非真实。从分析海外竹枝词入手 ,重新检讨中国世界秩序观从古代向近代转型的问题 ,于今日顺应世界一体化的潮流极富意义。

From ancient time on,to understand the world out of China is an important consciousness of Chinese,especially the intelligentsia.Many ancient works reflect authors’understanding to the outside world.However,limited by authors’knowledge,their Sino-centralism and Chinese-culturalism,the contents of those works are far from realities.This paper choose a word“imagination”to describe the authors’consciousness,and tries to seek for the reason behind it by studying on a special kind of poetry-Haiwai Zhuzhici-written during the Qing Dynasty.