中国园林史的期待与指归

Longing and Belonging in Chinese Garden History

文章关注了中国园林史学的发展历程与前景,并以现代学术文献和传统文献的范例为焦点。作者要旨有二:首先,利用比较哲学与东亚思想史的词汇,阐明西方图像技术的引进及文献精读在方法论层面上的意义;其二,阐明中国园林史学史中跨文化比较的重要性。在这其中包含两个问题:一种"西化的"中国史学史面对国际园林史学科的新动向如何能做出新的贡献?在中国园林史学已有的研究成果中,有哪些资源可以用来挑战国际学界的欧洲中心论?

This paper is a study of the historiography of Chinese gardens as its prospects, and deals specifically with exemplary works in modern scholarship and in traditional literature. Two aims are pursued in this study： first, drawing on analytical terms developed in comparative philosophy and the intellectual history of East Asia, this paper highlights the importation of Western imaging techniques and close readings of sources as two topics of methodological significance. Second, this paper elucidates the importance of cross-cultural comparisons in the historiography of Chinese gardens. Two questions are involved： What can a ＂Westernised＇ Chinese historiography contribute to new developments in international scholarship in garden history？ What resources can be found in existing scholarship in Chinese garden history for challenging Eurocentricism in an international setting？