The Invention and Reinvention of “Japanese Culture”
The Invention and Reinvention of “Japanese Culture”
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“日本文化”的发明与再创造
DOI：
10.2307/2059450
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发表时间：
1995
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T. Morris‐Suzuki
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作者：
T. Morris‐Suzuki
一个幽灵正在困扰着欧洲，甚至世界其他地区：当然不是共产主义的幽灵，而是另一个巨大的C文化的幽灵。在1991年的国际亚洲历史学家协会会议上，普林斯顿大学的余英石教授在他的主旨演讲中指出，当前历史研究中最重要的趋势是认识到“文化在历史上是一种相对独立的力量”(于1991，21)。他认为，太长时间以来，历史学家一直通过一扇狭小的窗口来看待过去，这是由西方价值观塑造的，尤其是被西方无所不能的观念塑造的，西方认为历史是对“科学真理”的追求。为了突破这一狭隘的框架，我们需要认识到“每个社会或人民的历史不仅值得作为世界历史的一部分来研究，而且还应该考虑到它的内在价值”(Yu 1991，26)；换句话说，我们需要接受渡边弘志的观点，即每个社会或地区可能像个人一样以自己的方式“以自己的‘独特’方式‘被研究’”(Yu 1991，23)。
A specter is haunting europe and, indeed, the rest of the world: not, of course the specter of Communism, but of that other big C—Culture. At the 1991 Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Prof. Ying-Shih Yu of Princeton University argued in his keynote address that the most important current trend in historical studies was the recognition of “culture as a relatively autonomous force in history” (Yu 1991, 21). For too long, he suggested, historians have looked at the past through a narrow window shaped by the values of the west, and particularly by the all-powerful western notion of history as the pursuit of “scientific truth.” To break through this constricting frame we need to recognize “that the history of every society or people deserves to be studied not only as a part of world history but also on account of its intrinsic values” (Yu 1991, 26); we need, in other words, to accept Watanabe Hiroshi's notion that every society or region may be “‘particular’ in its own way like an individual” (quoted in Yu 1991, 23).