传说群：梁祝故事的传说学思考

梁祝故事被称为中国四大传说之一,它在传说学研究中应当占有重要地位。早在20世纪30年代,钟敬文先生就撰文呼吁,认为民间文学和“文人的文艺”、“书本的文艺”有着很不相同的地方,单凭一般文艺学不能完成研究民间文艺的任务,因此必须把这个独特的研究对象放到适合它的那个学科中去,用独特的方法去研究它。但是在较长一段时间里,民间文艺研究的独特性并没有引起足够的重视,以至于直到     

表演理论与民间叙事研究

民间叙事(Folk Narrative),是指在不同集团的人们当中流传的、对一个或一个以上事件的叙述,与一般叙事不同的是,它们主要是通过口头来进行交流(所以有时又被称为“口头叙事”,Oral Narrative),而且往往以众多异文形式存在。民间叙事范围广泛,包含着许多种叙事文类(Genres),其中既包括比较传统的文类,像神话、民间传说、民间故事(狭义)、笑话、史诗、叙事歌谣等等,另外也包括现代日益受到学者们关注的个人叙事(personalnarrative)、都市传说(urbanlegend)、奇闻逸事(anecdote)等。民间叙事不仅一直是民俗学、民间文艺学领域里最受关注的研究内容之一,而且还常常引起诸多文艺学家、人类学家、语言学家、心理学家、历史学家等的浓厚探索兴趣。     

Looking Out to Look In: The Use of the Periphery in China's Geopolitical Narratives

Using a previous paper published in Eurasian Geography and Economics (Agnew, 2012) as a point of departure, an American geographer and specialist on China explores the role of the periphery (frontier, borderlands) in forging perceptions of China's place in the world. By presenting counter-narratives to the myth of a singular Chinese culture/ethnicity spreading inexorably from a Yellow River hearth region over five millennia, the author demonstrates how the Chinese have "looked out" (i.e., used a complex and seemingly alien frontier space) in order to "look in" (mark a "Chinese" identity as culturally homogeneous even when it was not). The paper examines how this process worked through time to repeatedly reinvent an unambiguous and knowable China from histories of intermixing, ambiguity, and spatial complexity. It contrasts a Mao-era perspective of a periphery marking the leading edge of an expanding and homogeneous Chinese culture with post-Mao and post-socialist narratives, which view the periphery more as a "contact zone" between China and its neighbors, where Han ethnicity and Chinese civilization alike are viewed as having absorbed external influences.     

马来西亚华人与伊斯兰党关系——吉兰丹州个案分析

伊斯兰党是马来西亚主要反对党之一,1990年以来,该党在华人只占4.43%的吉兰丹州长期执政,进行伊斯兰教国实践,其伊斯兰化政策引起朝野争议。论文介绍了伊斯兰党在吉兰丹的伊斯兰化政策,分析了基于伊斯兰党的种族理念,吉兰丹政府的华人政策和吉兰丹华人对伊斯兰党及其州政府的态度,说明坚决支持和坚决反对伊斯兰党的华人是少数,中间派是多数。伊斯兰党在吉兰丹州的执政证明,他们公正、廉洁,能够善待华人,使外州华人不再像过去那样抗拒伊斯兰党。吉兰丹模式对马来西亚其他地方马来人和华人具有示范意义。     

Socioeconomic Rights: A Dialogue With Islam

There are some who believe that there will be an inevitable “clash of civilizations” between the Muslim world and the West. By contrast, this article contends that there are many opportunities for constructive dialogue between the two that can bridge the cultural divide. Specifically, the article proposes a cross‐cultural dialogue on social justice as a promising starting point for productive intercultural engagement. The article discusses the rich tradition of social justice in the Muslim world, and the ways in which these Islamic tenets are implemented by a range of Islamist political parties, including Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP), Morocco's Justice and Development Party (PJD), and Tunisia's Ennahda Movement. Given the West's relative dearth of mainstream social justice parties, the article proposes that, on this count, it has much to learn from the Muslim world.