族群记忆与地方性知识的交互与融合——纽芬兰华人春节庆祝的历史、文化表演与仪式过程

The Interplay between Ethnic Tradition and Local Knowledge: The History, Cultural Performance and Rituals of Chinese New Year Celebrations in Newfoundland

春节是传承华人身份最独特的文化符号与情感纽带。论文指出,自1896年起,作为华人民族性的重要表征,庆祝春节已成为纽芬兰华人文化和社会生活的重要组成部分,并为当地社区所关注。在庆祝春节过程中,纽芬兰华人不断重新认识、理解和定义自我的族群身份,通过各种文化实践,应对和适应变化中的北美社会和历史语境,创造性地将民族历史文化的记忆和所处地方社会的现实经验进行改造和融合,构建了既尊重传统又反映现实的属于主体自身的文化意识和身份认同。论文认为,族群记忆与地方性知识的交互融合所形成新的文化样态,是建构跨越种族、民族和文化的人类命运共同体的文化基石,为多元文化语境下的族裔研究提供了新的理论视角和实践依据。

As the most distinguished cultural existence and emotional attachment to their homeland,Chinese New Year serves to transmit the Chinese diaspora’s sense of belonging.Since 1896,as an important presentation of Chineseness,celebrating Chinese New Year has become an inseparable part of Chinese culture and social life in Newfoundland,and has been well recognized by the local general public.Through New Year’s celebrations and a variety of other cultural practices,Chinese in Newfoundland continuously rediscover,negotiate and re-conceptualize their understandings of Chineseness,as response to the socio-historic changes in North America.In this process,this particular Chinese diasporic group creatively reshapes and integrates the ethnic and the vernacular traditions so that constructing a new selfawareness and cultural identity.In this sense,this new culture which emerges in the interplay between ethnic tradition and local knowledge,plausibly suggests the possibility of constructing a cross-racial/ethnic/cultural shared community.This article therefore provides a new theoretical and practical lens for ethnic studies in the context of multiculturalism.