江南双城记:地域文化传统中的现代性资源

Two Cities of Southern Region of Yangtze River:Modernism Resource in Regional Cultural Tradition

历史上中国经济文化重心由中原向东南的转移过程,尤其明清时期江南区域经济/社会的发展,造就了奠定在市场基础之上的商业消费城市,并以其雄厚的经济实力支持了先民的文化创造,形成'苏意'、'扬气'乃至'海派'的风格特质。它的城市文化性质与乡土中国的农民文化背景反差如此之大,既以富庶被人钦羡,又因势利、轻浮迭遭传统文人的指责。我们认为,作为中国传统文化的区域构成部分,商业性的江南城市文化作为中国传统文化资源中最富于现代性的因素,是中国文化/社会现代性转化的内在根据之一。

Historical culture of Southern Region of Yangtze River is an exception of traditional Chinese culture. That the process of Chinese economic and cultural core moved from central China to southeast China in the history, especially the regional economy and social development during Ming and Qing dynasties, forged the commercial consumer-city based on market, supported ancestor’s cultural creation with rich economic strength, and made the traits of Su-taste, Modern and Shanghai-style. Its urbanity character was so hugely different from rural Chinese cultural settings, which both being envy of its richness and being denounce of its snobbishness and frivolousness by normal literati. It is said that commercial Southern regional culture of Yangtze River, as a part of Chinese traditional culture and as the most modem factor of Chinese traditional resource, was and is one of the inherent basis of Chinese cultural/social modernism transition.