早期现代情感的“基础设施”:论中国文学研究与比较文学视野

“Infrastructure” of Early Modern Emotions: Introducing Comparative Perspectives into Studies of Chinese Literature

本文旨在详细介绍海外汉学学者林凌翰2018年的专著《早期现代中国的空间与情感》(Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China,哥伦比亚大学出版社)的主要观点和论述过程,分析其明示或隐含的比较文学视野。由此不仅对林著建构早期现代中国情感观念的学术理论道路进行反思和评价,也进一步阐释全球化语境下比较文学研究对于中国文学研究的意义。

This paper attempts to analyze the argument and the structure of argumentation of the recently published book Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China(Columbia University Press,2018)by Ling Hon Lam,a scholar of Chinese and comparative literature at University of California,Berkeley,with a particular attention to the comparative perspectives stated or implied in the book.In so doing,it not only provides informed reflections on the methodology underlying Lam’s work,but also submits an argument on the importance,in the current era of globalization,of embedding comparative perspectives in studies of Chinese literature.