徘徊在现代性门前——《海上花列传》文本意义研究

Wandering in Front of Modernity——The Meaning of Sing-song Girls of Shanghai Text

《海上花列传》诞生于十九世纪末的上海租界,以长三书寓为主要的书写对象,从花街柳巷这一特殊的公共领域入手,以此来观照西方物质文明和生活方式输入后对上海产生的影响。作者韩邦庆尝试用传统的叙事方式来书写他对一个新兴都市的认知与记忆,《海上花列传》的文本意义由此获得了多重性:既体现出新兴都市中的现代性因素的萌芽,又完成了对中国古典小说美学的一次回归,同时凸显了传统文人在面对现代文明对传统文化冲击时的彷徨和犹疑。

Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is set in the Shanghai concession of the late 19th century.This book is based on ＂Changsan Shuyu＂ ;it observes and researches the impact of the western material civilization and life styles on Shanghai from the perspective of the red-light districts;it displays the transformation of Shanghai people＇s entertainment and leisure in the late Qing Dynasty,and shows the readers the local conditions and customs of that era.Han Bangqing attempted to adopt to express his cognition and memory towards a burgeoning urban city,thus the Sing-song Girls of Shanghai possesses multiple interpretations that can be made of the meaning of its text：it both shows the emerging urban modernity at the same time as it showed the aesthetic spirit,Also highlights the traditional scholars＇s loss and hesitation when they in the face of the traditional literati culture shock of modern civilization.