封而不闭的民族国家——兼论跨国民族研究两大范式

THE NATION STATE BLOCKED BUT NOT SECLUDED: ALSO COMMENT ON THE TWO PARADIGMS IN THE STUDIES OF TRANSNATIONAL ETHNIC GROUPS

民族国家并不是密不透风的城池,而是一个封而不闭的有限有序开放的社会;民族国家也不是孑孓独立的社会,而是彼此有着千丝万缕联系的连通社会。民族国家的领土虽然是圈定的不可移动的,但民族国家的社会及其文化是流动的。当下世界所划分的地方、国家、地区和全球,其实都是以民族国家作为参照核心而相对区分的。民族国家建构最初从区隔领土的实践出发,最后却深陷跨国社会连接的网络,使得国与国之间不是越来越封闭隔离,而是越来越连接紧密。全球化使得这种连接彰显着世界原本就是一个连续社会的本质,民族国家眼下的彼此分割只是为未来连续世界的整体性连接铺平道路而已。

Rather than beinga closed city and moat, nation state is an orderly open societyblocked but not secluded. It is not an individual independent society, but the ones keeps countlessties with other societies. Though the territory of each nation state is defined and unmovable, itssociety and culture are floating. The contemporary world is categorized as local, state, region andglobal, however, such classifications are relative and based on the nation states for references. Theinitial construction of nation state starts from defining the territory, but deeply involves into thenetwork of transnational social connections, as a result, each country is more and more closelylinked rather than more and more closed and segregated with other countries. Globalization makessuch connections manifest the very essence of the world that it is a grand successional societyoriginally, the present separation of nation state with each other is but paving the road for thesuccessional world as a whole in the future.