到「西方」寫中國大歷史：黃仁宇的微觀經驗與他的中國學社群

Writing Chinese Macro-history for the "West": Ray Huang's Micro-Career and His China Studies Community

孟祥瑞(Hsiang-Jui Meng)

指導教授 ： 石之瑜

國立臺灣大學/社會科學院/政治學研究所/碩士(2008年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2008.10307

摘要

黃仁宇雖然是華語史學界最暢銷的作家之一，他的中國觀在中美學界卻很少得到認可。在他的學術生涯中，他的學術關切雖然並未改變，但他的論述方式卻有不同的轉折，從早期向美國學術體例調適，中期自成一格的把中國引入西方的學術語言，以至晚期以中國經驗為基準的中西比較。
黃仁宇在早期的學術生涯就表現出他不同於其他學者的中國觀，而其中主要來自他在中國內陸的軍旅經驗以及前往美國後所遭受的文化衝擊。以上經驗上他早年在中國的生活、國民黨身分以及定居美國的選擇，這些自我認同因素都可能是黃仁宇尋求發展不同的學術觀點的重要動機之一。
然而黃仁宇的觀點由於並不能通過美國學界學術分科的檢驗，加上他對於學術界中主流論述的挑戰，使得黃仁宇在美國發展並不順遂，也導致他最終失去教職，心灰意冷而投身著述。

關鍵字

黃仁宇 ； 中國大歷史 ； 認同與學術

並列摘要

Despite being one of the best-selling Chinese historian, Ray Huang’s China image was widely discredited among the U.S. and Chinese academia. Whilst his central academic concern remained constant, his discoursive mode had changed throughout his career as an historian. He started his career adjusting himself to the style of academic papers in the States, then introducing China in western academic language with his own fashion. In later part of his career, he compared the China and the west under the standard of Chinese historical experience.
Ray Huang’s work had eminently shown a different way of interpreting China at the incipient phase of his career. The main reason for this is his experience as a KMT military officer in China inland and the cultural shock he had encountered when he first arrived at the United States of America. For the reasons above, and his life experience in China before he reached adulthood, KMT backgound and choice for staying in the U.S., the assorted reason mention above could be one of the most important motif for him to craft a different theory on China that can answer all his question on his own identity.
However, Huang’s China image was not approved by the academic standard of social sciences. Furthermore, his viewpoint had challenged the existing theory system of the mainstream academia. His career in the States was not smooth throughout and finally lost his tenure. In the great despair, he turned to full-time writing and never looked back.

並列關鍵字

Ray Huang ； Chinese macro history ； Identity and academics

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