西方的中国形象简析_关于形象学学科领域与简析范型的对话.pdfVIP

20052 ( 59 ) 1 2 周 宁 宋炳辉 ( 1. , 361005 2. , 200083) : 形象学研究涉及比较文化与比较文学两 个学科领域, 它在中国才刚刚开 始在比较文学视 内,这方面的研究有时显得领域过宽, 因为对异国形象的分 析, 总离不开社会历史与文化语境, 研究观念与方法也不限于文学; 在比较文化视 内, 它的疆域往往又显得过窄, 因为异国形象作为一种关于文化他者的集体想 象, 不同类型的文本是相互参照印证共同生成的,又不能仅限于文学对于形象 学研究的学科归属理论前提研究对象研究范型的思考, 一旦有了初步的学术 积累,就不能推延了2004 年5 月, 学苑出版社出版了周宁先生的 中国形象: 西 方的学说与传说!丛书, 一共8 卷: 契丹传奇! 大中华帝国! 世纪中国潮! 鸦 片帝国! 历史的沉船! 孔教乌托邦! 第二人类! 龙的幻象!一套丛书的出 版, 对学者 个人而言是一个课题的完成但对学术界, 却可能意味着 一个研究领域 的开拓此时, 或许重要的首先不是评价 个人取得了多大成就, 而是从学术角度, 思考这项研究对整 个学科或研究领域是否和在多大程度上提出了富于启发性的 问题 Editorial: Image study is a newly emerging discipline in hina, which verges on another two disciplines, namely, comparative culture and comparative literature. In comparative literature, image study sometimes seems out of focus because the study of foreign images is closely related to social, historical and cultural contexts andthus its concepts and approaches cannot be confined to literature. In comparative cul ture, image study seems to cover so small an area since foreign images as a collec tive imagination of the other are the product of different types of texts reinforcing ∀ 148 ∀ CLIC Vol.59 No. 2, 2005 each other rather than that of literary texts alone. Once initiated in this direction, the meditation onthe position of image study as a discipline, its theoretical basis, research object and research paradigm has no reason to be suspended. In May 2004, Prof. Zhou Ning published his series of works Images of China in the West which consists of 8 volumes, namely, The legend of QiDan, TheEmpire fo Great China, Centurial China Tides, TheEmpire fo Opium, The WreckedShpi of History, The topia of Conf ucianism, The Second Man, and The Illusion fo Dragon. To a scholar, the publication of a series of books maybe just means the