睡狮新解:兼论梁启超1898～1903年间的革命倾向

New View on the Sleeping Lion and Liang Qichao's Revolutionary Tendency between 1898-1903

本文围绕梁启超与"睡狮",与"睡狮"相关的"傀儡""病夫""乳虎"等一系列国族形象的密切关系,结合梁启超的个人经历,与睡狮一喻的历史成型语境,对目前流行的睡狮形象提出新的见解:睡狮在梁氏笔下是取外强中干、老大腐朽的傀儡义,是具有强烈负面意涵的国族形象。以睡狮为切入口,对梁启超在戊戌变法失败后,流亡日本最初的几年内其思想的异变,尤其是与革命派及革命思想的暧昧关系,进行深入分析。

The paper gives a new understanding on the image of Sleeping Lion by discussing the relationship among images of nation in China＇s history： Puppet, Sick Man, Baby Tiger and the Sleeping Lion, exploring Liang Qiehao＇s personal experience and historical context of this concept. The Sleeping Lion truly means something that is outwardly strong and inwardly weak, a synonym of Puppet. It is a pejorative concept on image of nation. Also, we will have a better picture of Liang Qichao＇s ideolog- ical change in Japan after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, especially his ambiguous relationship with revolutionaries and their political agenda by analyzing the new meaning of the Sleeping Lion.