《海上花列传》中的空间书写及其文化意义

The Spatial Writing and Its Cultural Meaning about The Biographies of Sing-song Girls in Shanghai

《海上花列传》出版于1892年,作品留下了上海激进发展之初的独特印记。鸦片战争后租界上海率先进入现代化进程,妓业成为展现上海资本化程度的聚合点之一,韩邦庆"近真"的创作风格为我们的探察提供了有价值的视角。文本中占据主要叙事空间的长三书寓同公馆空间的对照,以及两类"乡下人进城"情节的互为参照作为探索都市文明与本土文化对抗的显象剂,揭橥出转型期社会环境中不同文化地位的此消彼长,而这正是《海上花列传》都市书写的现代意义所在。

"The Biographies of Sing-song Girls in Shanghai"was written in 1892,leaving a unique mark of Shanghai at the beginning of its radical development.After the Opium War,the concession Shanghai took the lead in entering the modernization process,and the Prostitutes industry became one of the aggregation points to show the degree of capitalization in Shanghai.Han Bangqing’s"near truth"style of writing provided a valuable perspective for our exploration.The text of the main narrative space in the brothel space comparison with the mansion space,and the two types of‘country people into the city’plot as a reference for exploring the confrontation between urban civilization and local culture,is a symbol to show the changes of Shanghai between different cultural statuses.And this is the modern meaning of urban writing in The Biographies of Sing-song Girls in Shanghai.