汉学主义范式的空间结构——以《哈佛中国史》为中心的考察

The Spatial Structure of the Sinology Paradigm——A Study Centered on History of Imperial China

汉学的大量输入确实提供了新的史学理论、方法、视角、观点和叙事手法,开阔了中国学者的视界,与此同时,汉学本身也带有种种问题,比如西方中心论的烙印,背后隐藏的解构中国民族国家建构的政治化动机,等等,是为汉学主义的重要内容。然而,对于后者往往视而不能察,察而不能举。本文以畅销的《哈佛中国史》为中心分析汉学主义范式的空间结构,包括:'帝国'概念的滥用,内外对立的空间政治,汉族/他者的族群二元叙事。最后,讨论面对汉学的挑战如何从空间上定义历史上的'中国'。

The massive input of Sinology does provide new historical theories,methods, perspectives, ideas and narrative techniques and broaden the horizons of Chinese scholars while Sinology itself has a variety of problems, such as the brand of Western Centrism, the hidden political motivation of deconstructing China’s nation-state construction and so on, which are the important elements of Sinology and are often visible but not perceptible, perceived but not introduced. This paper analyzes the spatial structure of the paradigm of Sinology centered on the best-selling History of Imperial China, including the abuse of the concept of " empire",the spatial politics of internal and external opposition,and the binary narratives of the Han nationality and other ethnic groups. Finally,the thesis discusses how to define " China" in history from space in the face of the challenge of sinology.