Interdisciplinary and Integral Research on "MANGA Studies"

《漫画研究》正在进行学术创刊。对漫画作品的分析，包括漫画批评、漫画社会学研究、漫画文化研究、漫画历史、漫画图像学、漫画文本文学批评、漫画表达思想史等，采用多种方法进行。因此，“漫画研究”一直处于一种“百花齐放”的状态，即一种无定形的、纷繁的状态。因此，在以往漫画研究成果的理论和历史基础上，阐明“漫画研究”的实际问题、基本方法论问题或未来任务，对于形成跨学科的“漫画研究”具有重要意义。随着研究的深入，“漫画研究”面临着三个紧迫的内在问题：1)克服“漫画研究”被历史“连续性”和学术“整体性”观念所束缚的现状。2)引入哲学或理论经济学等其他学术流派，以发展“漫画研究”的有用特征。3)重新思考漫画的社会意义，提出漫画对消除种族主义、性别歧视、政治沙文主义等社会矛盾的可能性有一定影响的论点。

"MANGA Studies" is en route for its academic formation. Analyses on MANGA works, including MANGA criticism, sociological studies of MANGA, cultural studies of MANGA, history pf MANGA, iconology of MANGA, literary criticism of MANGA as text, intellectual history of MANGA expression and so on, are carried on with numerous methodologies. Acordingly, "MANGA Studies" remains in a kind of "Hundred Flowers", that is, an amorphous and multitudinous situation. Therefore, to articulate actual problematiques, essential methodological questions or future assignments of "MANGA Studies", on a theoretical and historical basis of previous research results about MANGA, has a great importance for forming interdisciplinary "MANGA Studies".As our research project developed, it became clear that "MANGA Studies" has 3 urgent inherent problems : 1)To overcome the present situation of "MANGA Studies" enfettered by the ideas of historical ‘continuity' and academic ‘integrality'. 2)To bring another scholarly genres such as philosophy or theoretical economics into play in order to develop useful characteristics of "MANGA Studies". 3)To rethink the social significance of MANGA and advance the thesis that MANGA has a definite influence on the possibilities to have social contradictions such as racism, sexism or political chauvinism licked.