《大同書》性／別烏托邦：全球社會關係重構之想像

A Sex / Gender Utopia in The Book of Grand Commonality: Imagining the Reconstruction of Global Social Relations

本文試圖論證，《大同書》的烏托邦想像中，一個最重要的基礎在於「性」與「性別」關係的改變。太平世大同理想主要的意義在於以性、性別所連動的家庭、國家、階級、種族等體制改變，連帶全球生產關係與社會關係之改變，從而人與人、機器、眾生皆處於新的關係中。本文從《大同書》文本脈絡闡釋此一想像方方面面之具體內容，最後指出此一烏托邦是如何回應帝國主義殖民之知識生產及其現實效應，並提出評價。

This paper argues that the transformation of sex and gender relationships is one of the most important standpoints of the Utopian vision in The Book of Grand Commonality. The significance of the ideal of a grand commonality during the Age of Great Peace is the possibility of bringing about changes in the relations of production and social relationships facilitated through changes in family, nation, class and race systems. Since these systems interlock with sex and gender institutions, the result would be the establishment of new relationships—between human and human, as well as between machines and all creatures. Through reading the text and context of The Book of Grand Commonality, this paper expounds and evaluates this ideal, pointing out that the Utopian imagination is a response to the realist effects of imperialist colonial knowledge production.