摘要
鸦片与轮船,分属消费品与生产工具的不同领域,是直接导致近代中西冲突与社会变革的关键性物质。西方轮船载来鸦片,导致中西冲突,又由轮船打开晚清边界,引发洋务派以轮船为中心的"自强"运动,由此在文化想象上构建起鸦片与轮船的复杂关系。这种关系既是晚清政府解决一系列社会冲突之意识形态基础,也是直至今日中国近代历史叙述话语的主线。一百余年来的中国现代化、民族国家建立过程与文化转型都把鸦片作为一种灾难性记忆,把轮船作为一种富强的象征,只有获得物质性"利器",中国才能改变积弱之形象,建立独立、富裕与强大的国家形象。因此,鸦片与轮船的复杂关系,既是我们切入中国近代社会演变的物质基础,也是反思近现代文化及其历史叙述的不可或缺的物质维度。
The opium and steamboat,accordingly belonging to different fields of the consumable and implements of production,is the critical material that directly causes social conflicts and changes. The opium carried by the steamboats from the West causes the conflict between China and the West. And then the steamboats open the boundary of the late Qing Dynasty,which is about the self-strengthening movement taking the steamboat as the center. Thereout the complex relations between the opium and steamboat are constructed in the cultural imagination. This kind of relations,are not only the ideology foundation of the late Qing government to solve a series of social conflicts,but also the masterstroke in China's modern historical narrative until now. In the establishment of the nation-state and the culture model change in the last 100 years,the opium were respectively regarded as a kind of disastrous memory and steamboat were the symbol of prosperity during the process of the modernization of China. Only if obtaining the physical edge tool,can China change the image of deterioration; establish independent,wealthy and powerful national image. Therefore,the complex relation between opium and steamboat are not only the material foundation that we understand the social evolution of modern China,but also the indispensable material dimension that we reconsider modern culture and its historical narrative.
出处
《清华大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第3期119-136,共18页
Journal of Tsinghua University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
