
历史幽灵学与现代中国的上古史——古史/故事新辨(上)
The Spectrology of History and Perspectives on Antiquity in Modern China: Doubting Antiquity Renewed (Part I)
Based on the different treatments of antiquity in two classic texts, Old Tales Retold and Differentiation of Ancient History, this paper expounds the positions of mythologies, legends and historical facts in contrasting visions of temporality and historicity through a comparative analysis of the tendencies of the two authors, respectively Lu Xun’s “parody of ancient history” and Gu Jiegang’s positivistic narration of ancient history. It analyzes how the historiographical maneuver of Gu that resolutely discards unreliable elements from ancient history was connected with modern European concepts of history and its impact on modern Japanese historiography, as well as with the fluctuations of earliest conceptions of republican historiography in the Republican period. The second half of the paper focuses on Lu Xun’s nonlinear view of temporality, which integrates the past, the present and the future in his literary practice, termed by this paper as a unique spectrology of history that enables glimpses into the world of the nameless concealed by traditional and modern historical narratives. This paper is composed of ten sections: I. The parody of ancient history and myths, legends, and historical facts; Ⅱ. “Differentiating stories from history” and the banishment of mythologies, legends, and romances; III. Secret replacement: from Christian secularism to modern historiography of Chinese/East Asian antiquity; IV. Whose ancient history is truncated? The fluctuations of the first wave of republican historiography; V. Deconstruction of names of things and the history of nameless people; VI. The non-historical world: mythology, superstition, religion; VII. The supra-historical world: the imaginative thinkers who are “enemies of mythology”; VIII. The spectrology of history: Ghost eyes and inquiries from anonymous people; IX. The future as a specter; X. Oblivion and the apparition of the nameless.
拟古史 / 神话 / 迷信 / 宗教 / 非历史 / 超历史 / 历史幽灵学 / 无名者 {{custom_keyword}} /
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