地方性、文本现代性与“情”:近五年海外现代中国都市文学与文化研究的三个路径

Three Approaches to the Study of Overseas Modern Chinese Urban Literary&Cultural Studies during Recent Five Years

通过选取自2015年出版的六部专著,本文旨在总结与分析海外汉学界在中国都市研究领域的三个研究新路径:地方性、文本现代性与"情"。这三个各自独立却互相关联的路径也可以被认为是理解中国现代性的三个角度。海外研究者创制了包括世界格局、国家叙事、地方经验、家族生活、个体境遇等涵盖大小领域的理解中国现代性的新范式,近来英语学界的都市研究丰富了我们对于自晚清以来中国现代性的独特性与复杂性的认知。

By selecting six academic monographs published since 2015,this paper examines three new approaches of overseas sinologists in the field of urban research in China:locality,textual modernity,and"emotion".These three independent yet interrelated approaches can also be regarded as three perspectives to understand Chinese modernity.Overseas researchers have created new paradigms to understand China’s modernity,including the world pattern,national narrative,local experience,family life and individual circumstances.Recent urban studies in English academic circles have enriched our understanding of the uniqueness and complexity of China’s modernity since the late Qing Dynasty.