比较与17、18世纪东西方的相遇  

Comparison and East-West Encounter:The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

作　　者：张隆溪[1] 张炼(译)[2,3] 郝田虎(校) Zhang Longxi(City University of Hong Kong,China)

机构地区：[1]香港城市大学,中国 [2]湖南师范大学 [3]浙江大学外国语学院 [4]哥伦比亚大学

出　　处：《中世纪与文艺复兴研究》2022年第1期2-19,共18页Medieval and Renaissance Studies

摘　　要：作为文化和传统的东方和西方这两个概念,只有通过比较,通过商贸、旅行及其他各种交往形式的相遇才可能产生。如果说13世纪的马可·波罗代表了欧洲在商贸和地理知识拓展方面的东西方交往的早期阶段,那么,随着耶稣会传教士的介入,以及启蒙运动时期欧洲文化和社会的内部发展,17、18世纪成了东西方交往中智性接触的重要时期。不仅“中国风”的流行改变了欧洲人物质生活的趣味和美学,而且莱布尼茨和伏尔泰等哲学家通过中国找到了他们正在寻求建构的国家和社会。这一国家和社会建立在理性基础上,而非基于宗教信仰。再次探讨当时的东西方相遇,将有助于我们更好地理解跨文化交流中的比较和差异,而这一议题对于我们当前所处的时代显得尤为相关和重要。East and West,as cultures and traditions,become possible to conceptualize only in comparison and in the encounters of trade,travel,and other kinds of interactions.If Marco Polo in the thirteenth century represented an early stage of the East-West encounter in trade and the expansion of geographical knowledge in Europe,the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries became the important time of intellectual contact in East-West encounters through the mediation of Jesuit missionaries and because of the internal development of European culture and society during the time of the Enlightenment.Not only did the trend of chinoiserie change European taste and aesthetics in material life,but philosophers like Leibniz and Voltaire found in China what they were seeking for a state and society,built on reason rather than religious belief.To revisit the East-West encounters of that time may help us attain a better understanding of comparison and difference in cross cultural interrelations,which remains an issue of particular relevance and importance for our time today.

关 键 词：跨文化交流 比较 东方和西方 欧洲 中国 17世纪 18世纪 马可·波罗 莱布尼茨 伏尔泰 耶稣会士 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]