海上法蘭西－從王韜的法國史志談晚清「海上知識社群」的思想特徵與文化實踐

Maritime France: A Discussion of the Late Qing Maritime Intellectual Circle's Characteristics of Thought and Cultural Achievements Starting from Wang Tao's Writings on French History

呂文翠(Lu Wen-tsuei)

《中國文學學報》 4期 (2013/12) Pp. 19-54

https://doi.org/10.6903/JCL.201312_(4).0002

摘要

本文以十九世紀末葉上海文人王韜（1828－1897）所撰法國史志相關著作為中心，探討其生產、流通與接受歷程，並將其人其作品置諸跨文化交流與對話的廣闊視域中重新檢視，彰顯其作為不同國家、疆域、語言與文化之間的「媒介人物」之重要特質；進一步呈現王韜的史學著作中強烈的「當代」意識，既為十九世紀末的東亞現代性課題注入豐富的辯證元素，亦開創了現代史學的新型書寫模式；其擅於以一國為中心，呈現國際間複雜角力與世界動態的筆法，充分展現了富有變局觀的晚清「海上知識社群」之多維視野，裨吾人省思傳統文士過渡為現代知識人的主體建構歷程。

關鍵字

晚清 ； 王韜 ； 法國史志 ； 海上知識社群

並列摘要

This paper focuses on works related to the collected writings on French history by Wang Tao (1828-1897), a native of Shanghai, at the end of the nineteenth century. It discusses the history of his production, propagation and reception, and places considerations of his life and works in a broad framework of transcultural exchanges and dialogue, to reconsider and emphasize how he took on the important attribute intermediary figure for different countries, regions, languages and cultures. Next, the intense contemporaneity of Wang Tao's awareness is shown in his historical works, in terms of how he interjected an abundance of dialectical elements into late nineteenth century in East Asian modernity, and how he created a new type of writing format for modern historiography. His excellent mastery of style of writing that took one country as central focus, then showed the complex international struggles and world dynamics, totally reveals the multifactorial view of a rich, changing world scene held by the late Qing, ＂maritime intellectual circle,＂ that provides a chance to reflect on the difficult transition to modernity, in the subjectivity and construction of the self, made by gentlemen of traditional culture on their way to becoming modern intellectuals.

並列關鍵字

Late Qing ； Wang Tao ； French history ； maritime intellectuals