摘要
语言文字是表述思想的工具还是构成民族或“国粹”的要素 ?它是否应为中国在近代中外国家竞争中的表现不佳承担责任 ?它能否影响晚清朝野试图改善中国在世界的地位这一共同的目标 ?如果能够 ,怎样影响 ?这些问题在清季最后几年受到朝野共同关注 ,曾出现了改革中文甚至废中文而用万国新语的主张 ,并引起激烈的观念竞争。当时的国粹派和欧化派(皆取其大意 )对此有着相当不同甚至对立的答案 ,而革命党人内部的对立有时甚至超过其与清政府的冲突 ,后者那时也在充满内部阻力的情形下尝试推行拼音化的“
Are language and writing tools for expressing ideas or are they the fundamental factors of forming the nation or “National Essence”? Should they be held responsible for China's poor performance in the rivalry between China and the foreign powers in modern times? Could they influence the common aim of the court and provincial elites trying to improve China's international status? If so, how would they influence it? In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, these questions aroused the concern of both the court and the provincial elites. Some people advocated reform Chinese, or even abolishing Chinese, and adopting Esperanto. This aroused heated ideological argument. At that time, the National Essence School and the Europeanization School (both broadly construed) had different, even conflicting answers. At times, the opposition among the revolutionaries were even sharper than the conflicts between them and the Qing government: against considerable internal opposition the latter was trying at the time to introduce alphabetized “simple scripts.”
出处
《近代史研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2001年第4期86-144,共59页
Modern Chinese History Studies
