西方乌托邦与“吾道其西”:王韬悖论式的文化心理图式——以《漫游随录》为中心

Western Utopia and His Remark About‘My Way Westward': Wang Tao's Paradoxical Cultural Mental Map, All Based on His Informal Essays

王韬的《漫游随录》作为事后追忆之游记文本,基于王韬本人际遇的变迁以及书写之际的启蒙策略,于文中全面呈现了一个乌托邦式的西方想象体,与此同时,在展开西方乌托邦想象之际,"吾道其西"的中华文化想象也平行展开,他者想象与自我想象之间的牵扯及其悖论性共存,说明近代思想的发生、近代新人的诞生从来不是非此即彼的简单替代,而是于新旧杂陈的思想交锋间摇曳而出。

His Informal Essays, a post-travel text, written from memory, is based on changes that happened in Wang Tao＇ personal experience and the enlightenment strategies at the time of writing in that a utopia of imaginary West is fully revealed in the text and, at the same time, the imagination of a Chinese culture with＇ my way westward＇ is also unfolded in parallel in which the imagination of an Other and that of a self co-exist, in an entangled and paradoxical manner, driving home the point that the occurrence of modern thought and the birth of the new people in modern times have never been a simple either-or replacement, instead an emergence out of the clash between thoughts, old and new.