The conception of qunzhong 群众(the political crowd) has always been a contested yet generative site of cultural and political interests and investments in modern Chinese history. Tie Xiao's new book, Revolutionar...The conception of qunzhong 群众(the political crowd) has always been a contested yet generative site of cultural and political interests and investments in modern Chinese history. Tie Xiao's new book, Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China, offers a refreshing critical analysis of this challenging and long-overdue topic. Drawing on a wide range of inter-disciplinary materials including political discourse, psychological theory, intellectual history, and literary writings, the book investigates the "crowd" less as a given, self-explanatory entity than as an emerging problematic whose forms of intelligibility take hold in both the global circulation of knowledge, which renders the crowd a legitimate object of inquiry, as well as the troubling relationship between the elitist intellectuals and the masses in the domestic mass politics. In other words, the topology of the crowd takes shape-and makes sense-only through the new ways of knowledge production and representational acts that register the profound anxieties among modern Chinese intellectuals and writers about the distance (or lack thereof) between self and others, individual detachment, and communal solidarity in the making of the revolutionary future.展开更多
近几年来英文学界涌现出一批有关20世纪中国革命思想文化的研究,尤为值得我们注意的是这批著作的跨学科视野。2017年由哈佛大学出版的肖铁著《革命之涛:现代中国的群众》(Revolutionary Waves:the Crowd in Modern China)是这批研究中...近几年来英文学界涌现出一批有关20世纪中国革命思想文化的研究,尤为值得我们注意的是这批著作的跨学科视野。2017年由哈佛大学出版的肖铁著《革命之涛:现代中国的群众》(Revolutionary Waves:the Crowd in Modern China)是这批研究中的代表。“群众”是现代中国知识群体和政治精英讨论中的常见词汇。相对于物理意义上的群众和群众集会,该书将有关群众的“话语”作为研究对象,在20世纪初全球思想史发生“群众转向”的背景下考察中国群众话语的崛起。展开更多
文摘The conception of qunzhong 群众(the political crowd) has always been a contested yet generative site of cultural and political interests and investments in modern Chinese history. Tie Xiao's new book, Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China, offers a refreshing critical analysis of this challenging and long-overdue topic. Drawing on a wide range of inter-disciplinary materials including political discourse, psychological theory, intellectual history, and literary writings, the book investigates the "crowd" less as a given, self-explanatory entity than as an emerging problematic whose forms of intelligibility take hold in both the global circulation of knowledge, which renders the crowd a legitimate object of inquiry, as well as the troubling relationship between the elitist intellectuals and the masses in the domestic mass politics. In other words, the topology of the crowd takes shape-and makes sense-only through the new ways of knowledge production and representational acts that register the profound anxieties among modern Chinese intellectuals and writers about the distance (or lack thereof) between self and others, individual detachment, and communal solidarity in the making of the revolutionary future.
文摘近几年来英文学界涌现出一批有关20世纪中国革命思想文化的研究,尤为值得我们注意的是这批著作的跨学科视野。2017年由哈佛大学出版的肖铁著《革命之涛:现代中国的群众》(Revolutionary Waves:the Crowd in Modern China)是这批研究中的代表。“群众”是现代中国知识群体和政治精英讨论中的常见词汇。相对于物理意义上的群众和群众集会,该书将有关群众的“话语”作为研究对象,在20世纪初全球思想史发生“群众转向”的背景下考察中国群众话语的崛起。