西方中国民歌研究现状及其启示

Chinese Folk Song Studies in the West:The Present State and Its Iluminations

西方学界对中国民歌的研究已百余年,发展至今产生了丰富的研究成果,他们采用与国内学者不同的方法和视角,拓展了中国民歌的研究视野和思路。但东西方文化的“异质性”也导致西方对中国民歌的研究存在误读、变异等问题,需要国内学者对其进行持续修正和重新阐释。在提倡跨文明对话、跨学科互鉴的当下,国内学界需理性认识西方中国民歌研究之优劣,以“他者视角”反观自身,注重相互借鉴学习,进而促进东西方话语体系下的中国民歌研究的互识、互证、互补与融合。

Scholars in the West have been studying Chinese folk songs for over a hundred years,producing a wealth of scholarships throughout the period.Adopting methods and perspectives different from their Chinese counterparts,these studies have expanded the research horizons and provided new ideas for the latter.However,the heterogeneity of Western and Eastern cultures also resulted in misreadings and mutations,demanding constant revisions and reinterpretations by Chinese scholars.In promoting cross-civilization dialogues and cross-disciplinary references,scholars in China should come to a sober understanding of Western studies of Chinese folk songs,including their advantages and shortcomings,to reflect on their own field via"the perspective of the other,make efforts to study from each other,and in doing so advance the mutual recognition,validation,complementation and fusion of Chinese folk song studies under Eastern and Western discursive systems.