「台灣留美客」：章緣《當張愛玲的鄰居》的跨界移動與城市書寫

American Guest from Taiwan': Translocal Representation of Chinese Urban Space in Zhang Yuan's Being Eileen Zhang's Neighbor

本文探討台灣當代女作家章緣的跨界移動和城市書寫，作為一個經歷多重跨國移動的女性移民，如何觀看與想像中國的都市空間。章緣在九○年代赴美留學，並定居紐約長達十多年之久，之後移居北京，目前定居上海，她在台灣、美國和中國之間的多重移動對於她的城市觀察與書寫產生深遠的影響，其作品呈現女性移民與不同地方和文化之間的互動，並挪用在地文化與原鄉記憶來想像新的居住空間。本文將以章緣的散文集《當張愛玲的鄰居：台灣留美客的京滬生活記》為觀察對象，討論章緣由一個世界公民的視角，並憑藉其西方文明與多元文化的薰陶，如何描繪與批判中國的城市空間。在經歷不同城市的文化差異之後，城市空間之於章緣是透過多重文化混雜而成的跨國想像，有別於在地居民的視角。

"This essay aims to examine the translocal imagination of urban space in China, with a focus on multicultural perspective, in Zhang Yuan's writing. Zhang Yuan is a Taiwanese female writer, who moved to the United States in the 1990s, then relocated to Beijing and now settles in Shanghai. Her multiple relocations among Taiwan, the United States and China have influenced her writing of urban space, which exemplifies women migrants' connection with different geographical locales and representation of places on the basis of local condition and homeland memory. Zhang Yuan's Being Eileen Zhang's Neighbor (2008) will be analyzed to investigate how Chinese cities are portrayed and criticized from a significant cosmopolitan viewpoint of migrants who are cultivated with western civilization and multiculturalism. After encountering cultural differences in multiple societies, this essay suggests that Zhang Yuan's literary representation of urban space as an enclave is socially and culturally constructed as a site of translocal imagination and cultural hybridization. The image of place is not only reinvented by material and cultural encounter and migratory trajectory, but also reveals how local urban space in China is transformed and created by middle-class migrants' privilege and cosmopolitanism."