“白话”科学及战时启蒙——以高行健(筱竹)的科普科幻创作为例(1935—1939)  

“Vernacular”Science and Wartime Enlightenment:Taking Gao Xingjian(Xiaozhu)’s Scientific Works as an Example(1935—1939)

作　　者：朱梦梦 Zhu Mengmeng(Department of Cultural and Religious Studies,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong 999077)

机构地区：[1]香港中文大学文化及宗教研究系,香港999077

出　　处：《科普创作评论》2022年第3期68-76,共9页Science Writing Review

摘　　要：目前对于民国时期科普科幻作品的研究主要集中在其内容上科学性的提高以及对社会的政治隐喻与批评这两个方面,而较少涉及作品本身语言形式的选择、读者群体的考量和战时语境这几个角度。以后三者为切入点,文章挖掘了民国化学家高行健(筱竹)的生平经历及他在20世纪30年代发表的大部分“科学小说”及科普诗词,以这些创作为例呈现出民国科普科幻作品的另一特征,即中国古典文学、戏剧等传统形式与西方现代科学话语的结合,这可能与当时的战争局势和理想读者群体的变化有关。将他的作品放置在20世纪30年代的战争语境下考察,文章认为战争造成的向西迁移促使知识分子重新思考科普的方式和对象,尝试以更广泛意义上的“白话”科学话语普及科学知识,而不局限于现代白话文,这也呼应了20世纪30年代“民族形式”论争中“旧瓶装新酒”的创作理念。Existing research on Chinese science fiction and popular science works in the Republican period mainly focuses on the improvement of scientific knowledge and the political criticism of the society,but less on the language form,the consideration of the reader group,and the wartime context.Taking the latter three as the starting point,this article excavates the chemist Gao Xingjian(Xiaozhu)’s life experience and most of his“scientific fiction”and classic poems of popular science written in the 1930s.It attempts to reveal another feature of science fiction and works of popular science in the Republic of China.To be specific,it is the combination of traditional Chinese literature,drama and other traditional forms,and Western scientific discourse.This is related to the wartime situation and the changes in the readership group.Placing Gao’s works in the context of the war in the 1930s,this paper argues that the westward migration caused by the war made intellectuals reconsider the methods and objects of popularization of science,and they achieved to popularize science in a broader sense of“vernacular”scientific discourse rather than limiting by vernacular Chinese.It also echoes the concept of“new wine in old bottles”during the debate of“national form”in the 1930s.

关 键 词：民国科普科幻 科学话语 战时启蒙 高行健(筱竹) 

分 类 号：I207.42[文学—中国文学]