近代北京的三种英文学刊与中国学术的国际化  

Three English Journals in Republican Beijing and the Internationalization of Chinese Scholarship

作　　者：顾钧[1] GU Jun(Beijing Foreign Studies University)

机构地区：[1]北京外国语大学

出　　处：《国际比较文学（中英文）》2023年第1期23-41,共19页International Comparative Literature

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究重大专项课题“外国语言文学知识体系研究”(项目编号:19JZDZ024)阶段性成果。

摘　　要：辛亥革命后随着大批留学生回国和中外学术交往的深入,在北京出版了多种英文学刊,到目前为止,国内外学界对它们均未有系统研究。本文作为首次尝试,在全面梳理相关资料的基础上评述了三份主要刊物《中国社会及政治学报》《辅仁英文学志》《燕京社会学界》的创办过程、作者队伍和主要内容。这些英文学刊见证了中国传统学术如文学、史学、哲学的国际化,也见证了社会学、政治学、法学等新兴学科在中国的兴起和繁荣,是近代中国学术发展的重要载体。这些刊物曾拥有一批学术精良、英语熟练的优秀作者,但很多长期被学界淡忘,即使是一些知名人物,他们的英文文章尚未引起足够的关注。本文选取各个学科具有代表性的学者为例,揭示留学生群体对于知识迁移和近代中国学术现代化的贡献。这三份英文学刊的创办不晚于同类的中文期刊,但更具有国际影响力,进一步增强了北京的学术中心地位。考虑到近代中国内忧外患的国内国际环境,做到这一点就更显得可贵。这些学刊至少可以在三个方面为当今中国软实力的提升提供有益的借鉴:一、如何直接用英文的学术话语来表述中国的政治、社会、历史和文化;二、如何将优秀的中文学术成果翻译成英文,扩大其学术影响力;三、如何创办中国特色的英文刊物,使之真正具有学术话语权和世界影响力。Due to the efforts of a large number of returned Western-educated Chinese students,Republican Beijing produced a variety of English journals,as cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries deepened after the 1911 Revolution.So far,these journals have not been systematically studied either at home or abroad.As the first attempt,this paper conducts a general survey of three major journals,namely The Chinese Social and Political Science Review,Bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking,and The Yenching Journal of Social Studies,in terms of their founding process,authorial team and main contents.These journals have witnessed the internationalization of traditional Chinese scholarship on literature,history and philosophy,as well as the rise and prosperity of emerging disciplines such as sociology,political science and law in China.Dozens of Chinese contributors to these journals were characterized by profound academic attainments and high proficiency in English,but in the past few decades many of them have been either neglected,or noticed merely through their Chinese works rather than English ones,which deserve renewed attention.This paper chooses several of them as examples of returned students for analysis,with special attention to their role in knowledge transfer and China’s academic modernization.Compared with their Chinese counterparts,the three English journals gained more international fame and gave a stronger boost to Beijing’s image as an academic center.Against the backdrop of domestic and international turmoil facing Republican China,their achievement and performance should be given more credit,and could provide useful reference for the enhancement of China’s soft power today in at least three aspects:first,how to explain Chinese politics,society,history and culture in English;second,how to translate Chinese academic works into English and expand their influence internationally;third,how to establish academic leadership through English journals based in China.

关 键 词：《中国社会及政治学报》 《辅仁英文学志》 《燕京社会学界》 留学生 近代中国学术 

分 类 号：G239.29[文化科学] K25[历史地理—历史学]