Abstract: The American sinologist Stephen Owen, from the perspective as the other, has scrutinized Chinese classics and infused a strong sense of self-awareness and identity anxiety into his understanding of Chinese classics, characters in those texts, and their authors, which enriches the image of the character, distinguishes the ethical stand of the author, and endows his interpretation with distinct psychological features. From the material world presented in the text, he analyzed the possession and behavior (such as naming private properties and composing a poem to a given tune in a family feast) of the poets in the Tang and Song dynasties, revealing the moral taboo behind textual symbols and offering the interpretation of great historical and cultural significance. In the contrast of poetry and irony, the Chinese drama, temporarily away from the role as an entertainment and a pastime, was given the aesthetic value of irony. It is in this sense that Owen's unique interpretative perspective has rectified the pattern of Darwinian evolution applied in the literary history. The perspective of Stephen Owen for interpreting Chinese stories is summarized as highlighting self-awareness and identity anxiety, focusing on the material world and moral taboo presented in the text, and emphasizing the contrast between poetry and irony. It is his unique interpretative perspective and discursive construction that establishes the dialogue between the text and the context, the character and the environment, as well as the history and the present.

Key words: self, material, irony, Chinese stories, Stephen Owen

摘要： 美国汉学家宇文所安以他者视角细读中国典籍文本,对中国典籍文本、人物以及著者注入强烈的自我意识与身份认同焦虑,丰富了人物形象,同时辨别著者的伦理立场,使得阐释具有明显的心理学特征。他从文本的物质世界着手,分析唐宋诗人文本中的占有物,以及为私产命名、家宴填词听歌等行为,揭示文本符号后的道德禁限,其阐释因此获得历史文化学意义。在诗意与反讽的比照中,中国戏剧暂且放下娱乐与消遣功能,获得反讽的审美价值,此阐释视角纠正了文学史中的达尔文进化论模式。突显自我意识与身份焦虑、着力文本的物质与道德禁限、关注诗意与反讽的关系是宇文所安阐释中国故事的切入点,是文本与语境、人物与环境以及历史与当下之间对话的阐释聚焦与话语建构。

关键词: 自我, 物质, 反讽, 中国故事, 宇文所安