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时间与语言：新汉学与中国历史

基本信息

Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Joshua A. Fogel (eds.), Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2023.

内容与作者简介

About this book

China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New Sinology” by restoring the role of language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern China emerged. Reading the modern as a careful and ongoing conversation with the past renders the “new” in a different perspective. This volume is a significant step toward a new historical narrative of China’s modern history, one wherein “ruptures” can exist in tandem with continuities. The collection accentuates the deep connection between language and power—one that spans well across China’s long past—and hence the immense consequences of linguistic-related methodology to the comprehension of power structures and identity in China.

Each of the essays in this volume tackles these issues, the methodological and the thematic, from a different angle but they all share the Sinological prism of analysis and the basic understanding that a much longer timeframe is required to make sense of Chinese modernity. The languages examined are diverse, including modern and classical Chinese, as well as Manchu and Japanese. Taken together they bring a spectrum of linguistic perspectives and hence a spectrum of power relations and identities to the forefront. While the essays focus on late Qing and early twentieth-century eras, they refer often to earlier periods, which are necessary to making real sense of later eras. The methodological and the thematic do not only converge, but also generate a plea for fostering and expanding this approach in current and future studies.

关于本书

中国的过去与现在自始至终都在持续对话，这一对话深深地受到时间和语言的影响：时间的定向性以及用于表达和巩固身份认同、思想和实践的语言机制。《时间与语言：新汉学与中国历史》通过深入的案例研究，论证并展示了"新汉学"的重要性，重新恢复了语言学和语文学在理解现代中国形成过程中的角色。将现代视为与过去的细致而持续的对话，赋予了"新"一个不同的视角。本卷集是迈向中国现代历史的新叙事的重要一步，在这一叙事中，"断裂"可以与连续性并存。该论文集凸显了语言与权力之间的深刻联系——这一联系跨越了中国悠久的历史——因此，语言学方法对于理解中国的权力结构和身份认同具有深远的意义。

本卷集中的每一篇论文从不同角度探讨这些方法论和主题，但它们都共享汉学视角的分析方法，并基本认同：需要更长的时间跨度才能真正理解中国的现代性。所研究的语言多样，包括现代汉语、古典汉语，以及满语和日语。这些研究综合起来，呈现了语言观点的谱系，进而展现了权力关系和身份认同的多元面向。尽管论文聚焦于晚清和二十世纪早期，但它们频繁地追溯到更早的历史时期，这对于真正理解后来的时代至关重要。方法论与主题不仅仅是聚合，更是为在当前和未来的研究中培育和拓展这种方法发出呼吁。

About the Author

Ori Sela is senior lecturer of East Asian studies at Tel Aviv University and currently serving as chair.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is professor in the Departments of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University in Toronto.

作者简介

塞拉·奥里（Ori Sela）是特拉维夫大学东亚研究高级讲师，现任系主任。

本-多尔·本尼特·茨维（Zvi Ben-Dor Benite）是纽约大学历史系和中东与伊斯兰研究系教授。

福格尔·约书亚（Joshua A. Fogel）是多伦多约克大学历史系教授。