赛金花的德国因缘及瓦德西的形象塑造——《孽海花》《续孽海花》营造的文化空间与中德情缘

Sai Jinhua’s Relation with Germany and the Image of Waldersee——The Cultural Space and Sino-German Affair Created in A Flower in a Sinful Sea and Its Sequel

本文以曾朴《孽海花》、张鸿《续孽海花》为文本,考察赛金花的旅德经验及其德国想象,进而研究文本中的瓦德西形象塑造,考察其中营造的文化空间与中德情缘,结合具体历史语境,指出彼时的小说家更多的考量仍是从自我主体性出发,而未上升到对对象国的客观认知高度。我们应在文史田野的考察中更加重视"文史互证"与"同异寻道"的维度,对后者来说,既包含了与我们有鲜明差异的对象国,也还应有更高层次的"存异寻同"的问道境界,这才是现代中国立于世界之林的高度所在。

Taking Zeng Piao’s A Flower in a Sinful Sea and Its Sequel by Zhang Hong as texts,this paper examines Sai Jinhua’s experience of traveling to Germany and her German imagination,and then examines the image of Waldersee in the texts as well as the cultural space and Sino-German relations created therein. We could learn that the novelists at that time still considered more from their own subjectivity rather than the objective knowledge of the target country. We should pay more attention to the dimensions of"mutual evidence between literature and history"and"seeking the way of common ground and differences"in our literary and historical fieldwork,the latter of which not only includes the target countries that are distinctly different from ours,but also has a higher level of"keeping the differences and seeking the common ground". This why China has taken its place among the nations of the world.