日常生活、視覺經驗與文學敘事：近代文學中的新式交通工具（1870s－1910s）

Daily Life, Visual Experience and Literature: New Vehicles in the Modern Chinese Literature

唐宏峰(Hong-Feng Tang)

《東華人文學報》 20期 (2012/01) Pp. 107-136

https://doi.org/10.6420/DHJHS.201201.0107

摘要

西式馬車、輪船、火車等新式交通工具在近代傳入中國，大大擴展了國人行走世界的腳步，並帶來新的時空觀念與感受。近代文學對各種新式交通工具及其帶來的種種變化有著豐富的表現。本文通過分析近代文學對於新式交通工具的表現，展示近代新式交通工具如何參與了城市流動空間的書寫、現代日常生活形態與公共空間／時間秩序的塑造、視覺經驗的更新，與自我認知的感覺。同時，在小說敘事中，這些旅行的工具手段作為重要的關節點，密切參與了故事的講述與小說的結構。舟馬車這些旅行的物質手段絕非靜態的、外在的工具，而是通過重新組織時空關係、提供公共空間，進而重組現代性生活秩序，與近代國人對個體與自我的把握。

關鍵字

新式交通工具 ； 近代文學 ； 現代性 ； 視覺 ； 公共空間 ； 日常生活

並列摘要

The modern vehicles such as western carriages, steamships and trains were introduced into China in late Qing period. They greatly influenced Chinese way of travel and brought new ideas and senses of time and space. There are abundant texts regarding modern vehicles in the late Qing and republican literature which show that new vehicles deeply participate in the writing of urban space of flow, the formation of modern daily life and public order of space and time, the renovation of visual experience and the establishment of the self. These new vehicles also function as important tools to structure and conjunction the story narration. This essay wants to show that the modern vehicles are not simply physical and exterior tools but important factors that reorganize the time and space relation, provide public space, and thus reconstruct the modern daily life order and recognize the self.

並列關鍵字

new vehicles ； modern Chinese literature ； modernity ； visuality ； public space ； daily life

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