国家记忆:民族志意义上的北京奥运会

The National Memory:The Beijing Olympic Games in Ethnography

通过各个阶段的努力,中国政府出面主持的北京奥运会变成了一种过渡仪式,它象征性地促使中国告别了相对孤立的时代,中国也就此进入到与西方社会同体共进的阶段。借助举国体制的强大竞争力,北京奥运会的仪式价值更多地体现在宣扬一种胜利、一段被殖民历史终结的意向。北京奥运会之所以不计成本且未遭到民众的质疑和抵制,在于它是一种特殊时代和社会境遇催生出来的特殊性的精神与文化活动,其具有超身体性的仪式价值,且已演化为一种中国式的国家仪式。北京奥运会还在文化学的高度上完成了对民族传奇叙事本体的超越,补足了中国人在这一领域的想象力。北京奥运会重构了中国国家至上的意义符号,已演化为一种国民式纪念碑。

Through all stages of efforts,the Beijing Olympic Games chaired by the Chinese government has become a transitional ritual.It symbolically prompted China to get out from a relatively isolated era and enter into a integrated phase with western society.With the powerful competitiveness of the nationwide system,the ritual value of the Beijing Olympic Games is more reflected in the proclamation of a victory and the end of colonial history.The reason why the Beijing Olympic Games did not count the cost and wasn＇t challenged and resisted by people lied in that it is a special spiritual and cultural activity that has been spawned by the special times and the special social situation.It has a ritual value surpassing physical body and has evolved into a Chinese-style national ritual.Beijing Olympic Games has also completed the transcendence over the narrative ontology of national legend on the cultural level and supplemented the imagination of the Chinese people.Beijing Olympic Games has reconstructed the significance symbol of China＇s national supremacy and has evolved into a national monument.