离散批评、“第三空间”理论与吧国公堂华人婚丧档案的解读

Diaspora Criticism,Third Space Theory,and the Interpretation of Chinese Wedding and Funeral Archives of the Chinese Council in Batavia

华人离散群体是中华文化在海外传播的重要载体。国内外学术界对海外华人婚丧文化史的研究多从离散批评的角度探析华人对中国传统婚丧文化的继承与发展,忽略了其日益呈现出来的在地化趋势。吧国公堂华人婚丧档案是现存稀见多语种未刊华人民间文献,集中反映了荷治时期印尼华人的族群认同与信俗迁移,展现出华族母体文化、西方异域文化、印尼土著文化在华人婚丧文化中杂糅共生、包容互渗的奇特现象。在离散批评的基础上,利用“第三空间”理论对吧国公堂华人婚丧档案进行全面解读,无疑具有重要的史学价值。它是利用民间文献对华人婚丧文化史展开的深入研究,为华人社会的真实存在提供有力证据并对族群多元文化主义给予直接例证。

Chinese diaspora groups are important carriers of the spread of Chinese culture overseas.Studies on the history of overseas Chinese wedding and funeral culture in both domestic and international academic circles have mostly explored the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese wedding and funeral culture from the perspective of diaspora criticism,ignoring the increasing trend of localization.The Chinese Wedding and Funeral Archives of the Chinese Council in Batavia is a rare multilanguage unpublished Chinese folklore document,which focuses on the ethnic identity and migration of the Chinese in Indonesia during the Dutch colonialperiod,and shows the strange phenomenon of the hybridization,symbiosis,and tolerance of the Chinese mother culture,the exotic Western culture,and the indigenous culture of Indonesia in the Chinese wedding and funeral culture.Based ondiaspora criticism,the comprehensive interpretation of the Chinese wedding and funeral archives of the Chinese Council in Batavia using the Theory of the Third Space is undoubtedly of great historiographical value.It is an in-depth study of the history of Chinese wedding and funeral culture using folklore documents,providing strong evidence for the real existence of Chinese society and a direct example of ethnic multiculturalism.