A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet
A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet
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细心的村庄：中国西藏的喜剧对话与语言现代性
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10.1017/s0021911817001383
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2018
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T. Thurston
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T. Thurston
喜剧是公众思考和批判生活经验和话语实践的有力工具。在中国的后毛泽东时代，喜剧还为西藏知识分子提供了一种在少数民族占主导地位的西北地区受限制的文化氛围中进入国家赞助的舞台和广播的途径。本文考察了 20 世纪 90 年代中期藏区流行的四部喜剧对白系列。这四场表演以虚构的“小心村”为中心，将都市精英和乡巴佬并置在一起，让喜剧演员在快速现代化的社会中应对传统与现代的问题。虽然表面上与中国国家支持的现代性相似（本身以汉语普通话为中心），但对这些表演对人物、社会问题和语言实践并置的关注揭示了藏语在独特的现代性中心地位的某些形式的藏语的推广。西藏的现代性不再是同化主义的，而是建立在对适当的藏语语言能力的掌握之上。
Comedy is a powerful tool for public meditation on and critique of lived experience and discursive practice. In China's post-Mao period, comedy also provided a means for Tibetan intellectuals to access state-sponsored stages and airwaves in minority-dominated Northwest China's restrictive cultural climate. This article examines a series of four comedic dialogues popular in Tibetan regions in the mid-1990s. Centered on the fictional Careful Village, these four performances juxtapose urban sophisticates and country bumpkins in ways that allow comedians to grapple with questions of tradition and modernity in a rapidly modernizing society. Though superficially similar to Chinese state-sponsored modernity—itself centered on Chinese Putonghua—attention to these performances’ juxtaposition of characters, social issues, and linguistic practice reveals the promotion of certain forms of the Tibetan language at the center of uniquely Tibetan modernity. This Tibetan modernity is no longer assimilationist, but based on mastery of the proper, Tibetan linguistic competences.