旅行與再現：晚清英法美遊記的政教空間與權力展演

"Travels and Representation: Political-Religious Sphere and Performative Power of the British Empire, France and America in Late-Qing Travel Journals"

以同治、光緒年間，首批從「天朝上國」親臨「地上世界」的清廷外交官員、知識分子的身體移動和遊歷書寫為研究對象，並聚焦於清人出訪英、法、美國的國族政教空間為探討範圍。援引後現代歐美學者關於現代西方文明的研究成果，借鑑法國經濟史學家布勞岱爾、傅柯的空間與權力論述、文化地理學等理論，藉以逼顯列強政教空間所展演的權力滲透與空間意義。並對照前現代晚清知識分子親歷現代西方文明現場的觀察和詮釋，深入剖陳旅人感知的文化衝擊和幽微心理。冀能透過前、後現代與東、西方的理論闡釋和現場觀察，產生跨文化、跨時代對話的知識火花，逼顯多重詮釋下的空間意涵。

"This paper examines the travels and writing of late-Qing China’s ambassadors and intellectuals, who first left the “heavenly dynasty” to visit the “earthly world” during the Tongzhi and Guangxu period, by focusing on the political-religious sphere they observed in the British Empire, France, and America. The first part of this paper scrutinizes the diffusion and performativity of power in the western political-religious sphere, which was inspired by the works of postmodernist scholars such as Fernand Braudel and Michel Foucault on space-power relation as well as cultural geography, to reveal the cultural significance in it. It then compares this kind of western perspective was with the bodily experiences and interpretations of the late-Qing’s pre-modern travellers, in order to reach a deeper understanding of their culture shocks and mental states. By juxtaposing theoretical interpretation and field observation, the pre-modern and the post-modern, the occidental and the oriental, this paper attempts to create a spark of intellectual light, exposing a more diverse reading of space across the boundaries of culture and time."