弗洛伦斯·艾思柯长江书写中的纵向旅行

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 汉学家弗洛伦斯·艾思柯是一位特殊的跨文化作家,她的《中国之镜》（1925）通过悬置19世纪以来西方殖民旅行叙事逻辑下的长江旅行书写模式,对长江文学文化和历史传统进行了去殖民化式的接受与阐释。本文在英语长江书写的历史脉络中审视并呈现艾思柯旅行书写的独特性,并在旅行文学研究领域“纵向旅行”前沿理论的观照下探察其多重叙事策略所建构的跨文化诗学与政治。通过肯定中国本土时间性、借鉴中国古典江河日记的创作手法、采用互文和比较等策略,艾思柯将长江旅行呈现为对中国传统文化和历史的跨文化翻译之旅,对西方帝国主义与欧洲中心主义的批判之旅,以及作为“世界公民”身份认同的实践之旅。她的长江书写非但不是对中国文化实行“文字暴力”,反而利用语言和叙事策略实现了跨文化认同,重塑了她与中国传统文化的精神链接和情感纽带,对强调文化交流、文明互鉴的当下具有重要启示意义。

关键词: 弗洛伦斯·艾思柯, 《中国之镜》, 长江书写, 纵向旅行, 跨文化认同, 世界公民

Abstract: In A Chinese Mirror (1925), Florence Ayscough, a well-known sinologist, has rejected the Anglophone conventions of rendering the Yangtze River into sites of imperial desires from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Instead, she brings to the fore the Great River's literary and historical legacies long obliterated by Western colonists, thus reterritorializing the Yangtze River in the context of cosmopolitan cultural exchanges. Drawing on theories of “vertical travel” recently configured in the field of Anglophone travel literature studies, this paper demonstrates the over-layered textual strategies Ayscough has employed to render her travels along the Yangtze River into a journey of cultural translation and critiques of imperialism and Eurocentrism, and a productive journey of realizing her cosmopolitan ideas. In doing so, she not only affirms the Chinese temporality, models her narrative on the Chinese classical genre of “river diary”, interposes translations and quotations to construct intertextuality, but also utilizes strategies of reminiscing over the past and constant comparison to articulate her cosmopolitan visions and profound affinity with and attachment to Chinese culture.

Key words: Florence Ayscough, A Chinese Mirror, the Yangtze River writing, vertical travel, transcultural affinity, cosmopolitan

吴娟娟. 弗洛伦斯·艾思柯长江书写中的纵向旅行[J]. 中国比较文学, 2025, 0(2): 185-204.

Wu Juanjuan. Vertical Travel in Florence Ayscough's Narrative of the Yangtze River[J]. Comparative Literature in China, 2025, 0(2): 185-204.

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