炸鸡店制造的玻利维亚中国梦

LA CHINA BOLIVIANA

尽管美国一直把南美当作自己的后院,但中国移民和商品的现实存在甚至让玻利维亚这样的南美小国也开始在"美国梦"之外做起了中国梦。电影和电视输入,给玻利维亚的"中国梦"平添了许多人完全不属于我们这个物质的时代的内容,它们是功夫,园林和在《阿凡达》电影中看到的仙境般的自然环境。有趣的是这个梦和他们在身边看到的中国元素如:遍布城乡的"中式炸鸡店"无论如何也对不上号。但这恰好就是我们这个时代的"中国特色"。普通的中国移民必须融入当地社会的消费习惯,但在想象层面上,中国人仍是遗世独立的古老族群。我们或许必须面对这种矛盾的且带有有超现实感的荒诞图象符号。

Despite the fact that that the United States has considered South America to be its home turf, nevertheless Chinese immigrants and products have introduced the Chinese dream as an alternative to Bolivia's 'American Dream'. This dream comes through the movies and televisions, and is permeated by outdated bits of Chinese culture including kung fu, scholarly gardens, and the mystical mists of Avatar. However, when we turn our gaze to how Chinese immigrants actually inhabit Bolivia, we discover a 'Chinese Style Fried Chicken Restaurant', which in no way conforms to the global Chinese imaginary. But in fact, this contradiction may in fact be the special characteristic of contemporary Chineseness. Ordinary Chinese immigrants adapt to the society in which they find themselves, even as at the level of the imaginary, Chinese people still in habit an independent and ancient ethnicity. Shen Shuqin believes that the time has come to face and resolve the paradoxes generated by this surreal and absurd symbolic imaginary.