论高罗佩《大唐狄公案》中的商人形象塑造

On the Image-building of Merchants in A Judge Dee Mystery Written by Robert van Gulik

高罗佩在其《大唐狄公案》的多个篇章中,通过商人社会生活的独特呈现、商人形象的负面化塑造及商人形象的人性描刻等展现了商人这一中国古代的特殊群体。这既是高罗佩以通俗文学的方式向西方读者展现中国古代商人形象及其生活的文学化表述,也投射了其力图展现复杂真实人性的创作希冀与寄寓其中的人道主义意识。《大唐狄公案》对于商人的塑造不仅反映了作为汉学家的高罗佩对于中国古代社会、法律、家庭伦理等诸多方面的思考和认知,也为西方读者开启了一个感知与审视古代中国社会生活的独特文化视角。

A Judge Dee Mystery, written by Robert van Guiik, built lots of different images of merchants who were treated as a special community in ancient China, through unique presentations of their social activities, negative descriptions and depicts of humanities. Building these merchants images were not only a literary creation showing their lives to the western readers through light literature, but reflected intentions of the author who tried to express the complexity and reality of human nature as well as his understanding towards humanism. These images of merchants in this novel reflected the sinologist Gulik＇ s special viewpoints towards society, law and family ethics of ancient China, while he opened a special cultural perspective for western readers to experience and think about the social activities in ancient China.