國技的重量－一九六○年代末期少棒熱相關報紙新聞論述中的國族主義話語初探

A Preliminary Study on the Nationalist Discourses of the Newspapers' Reports and Comments on Little League Baseball in the Late 1960s

倪仲俊(Chung-Chun Ni)

《通識研究集刊》 15期 (2009/06) Pp. 199-216

https://doi.org/10.6488/JCGE.200906.0199

摘要

本文以一九六○年代末臺灣「少棒熱」－包括紅葉少棒隊因擊敗來訪的日本少棒明星隊以及金龍隊榮獲世界少棒賽冠軍所引發的群眾狂熱－延燒期間與少棒競技運動相關報紙新聞之論述進行耙梳，分析其中的國族主義話語，以一種微觀理解，去說明在少棒熱的過程中、棒球競技活動與國族意識或想像的發展之間的邏輯關係是如何初步被建構的。本文的研究指出，從少棒熱伊始，相關的新聞報導就確實充斥著國族主義的情緒與話語；而在這些話語中，則指向同一個「中國人」的主體想像。同時，考察這些國族主義話與的論證脈絡，並非是植基於一種對於國族問題的全新理解，而是延續了過去源自於中國現代化過程中所產生的對身體文化的認知，適因新的社會情境的發生而大量地被重新生產。

關鍵字

少棒運動 ； 國族想像 ； 紅葉少棒隊 ； 金龍少棒隊

並列摘要

This paper examines the nationalist discourses of the newspapers' reports and comments on games and achievements of Taiwan's little league baseball sport in the late 1960s while the Team Hongyie defeated Japanese All-star Team and the Team Jinlong won the champion title of the 23rd Little League Baseball World Series. Then, it explains how the logical relation between those baseball games and the development of the nationalist consciousness and national imaginations was initially constructed. There are two major conclusions. The first, at the beginning of Taiwan's little league baseball fervor there were lots of the nationalist discourses infiltrated into the relative reports and comments of newspapers. Within those discourses, only one imagined subject, Chinese, was found. The second, the arguments of those discourses are not theoretically built on a new perception of the nationalist problems. Instead, they represented the same recognitions and contexts, which originated during the process of Chinese modernization, of the body culture and just reproduced when a new social condition happened.

並列關鍵字

little league baseball ； national imagination ； Team Hongyie ； Team Jinlong