历史哲学视域下的西域-中亚

The Western Regions and Central Asia from the Perspective of Historical Philosophy

中亚和西域,在通行的历史叙事当中,长期被人们视作世界历史和中国历史的客体,较少有对其主体性的讨论。这样一种单边的叙事,会遮蔽掉历史的丰富性与复杂性,也无助于构建边疆与内地真正意义上的共享历史记忆。需要在古今之变的格局当中,在大陆帝国的视野之下,重新构建一种历史哲学的叙事框架,给出对于历史与现实的不同理解方式。

Central Asia and the Western Regions, according to popular historical narratives, have long been regarded as objects of both world history and Chinese history, whereas discussion of their subjectivity has been too little. Such a unilateral narrative can neither call attention to the richness and complexity in history, nor can it help to construct shared historical memory, in the true sense, between both the frontier and the hinterland. This paper attempts to reconstruct a narrative framework of historical philosophy from a perspective of the continental empire through an overview of changes from the past to the present, so as to provide different ways in comprehending the history and reality.