台社論壇
與Martin Jacques商榷《當中國統治世界》
時間:2009年十月2日週五下午2:00
地點:台北清大月涵堂,金華街110號/金山南路口
與談人:Martin Jacques (When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World作者)
朱雲漢(台大政治系)
王超華(中研院近史所)
馮建三(政大新聞系)
徐進鈺(台大地理系)
陳宜中(中研院社科中心)
主持人:陳光興(交大社文所)
主辦:世新大學台灣社會研究國際中心,台灣社會研究季刊社,交大亞太研究室
2009年六月間英語書市上出現了一本新書, When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World《當中國統治世界:天朝的興起與西方的終結》,立即引起激烈的討論(見文末諸多評論)。這本書的核心論點是:過去兩百年中,人們住在一個西方所主宰的世界,在那個時代裡,什麼是現代幾乎與西方是同義字,但是在二十一世紀,由於非西方國家的崛起,西方不再具有主導性,不同種所謂現代的方式即將出現,在這個新時代裡,中國將是改變現代性的棋局中,最重要的玩家。
本書作者Martin Jacques指出,中國絕不是一個西式的社會,就算在未來也都會維持它的獨特性。它的幅員與一個洲的大小等同,心態上也是如此,又佔了世界五分之一的人口,中國不是一般理解的民族國家(nation-state),而是一個文明國家(civilization-state),反應在它的特性、態度與價值體系上。目前,中國已經擁有了公認的強大的經濟力,但是在未來將有更大的影響力,亦即,中國的崛起意味著西方全面主宰的民族國家的終結,未來的世界將會有全然不同的性質。中國很快將重新取得它過去在東亞的中心位置,歷史的朝貢體制也將以現代的形式出現,當代人種的階序(hierarchy)關係將被改變,中國固有的優越感更將赤裸裸的表現出來。簡單說,中國的崛起將改變我們所理解的、由西方所塑造出來的世界。
這本書在西方/英語世界的語境下,寫作目的明顯在喚醒關在自我中心的西方人,不能再自以為是,得認真面對世界的變化。而處身中文世界的我們,又要如何回應作者所提出的問題呢?這是本論壇的動力之所在,藉著Martin Jacques來訪的契機,與他論辯中國崛起對我們來說有什麼意義?
Martin Jacques是劍橋大學博士,八0年代時主編相當有影響力的Marxism Today,曾經主編Independent,是Times,Sunday Times,Guardian的專欄作家,是英國智庫Demos的創辦人。他於一九九0年代中期來台製作BBC 2的紀錄片,The Decline of the West and the Rise of East Asia,後來數次來台研究以及採訪和本書相關的問題,與台灣社會研究季刊社同仁建立起深厚的友誼。我們樂見他十多年來的研究終於問世,期待此次論壇能夠跟他有熱烈的討論。
Martin Jacques 簡介(引自Wikipedia)
Martin Jacques (born October 1945) is a British former magazine editor and academic.He was editor of the CPGB's journal, Marxism Today from 1977 until its closure in 1991, a publication which was politically quite mainstream in its final years, with regular contributions from figures generally identified with the Atlanticist left such as David Marquand. In this period, Jacques was the co-editor or co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).
Jacques was a co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times and was deputy editor of The Independent. Currently he is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. During the last year he has been a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. In 2009, Jacques' book about Asian modernity and the rise of China entitled When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World was published. He is a columnist for The Guardian and The New Statesman.
When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World《當中國統治世界:天朝的興起與西方的終結》相關討論連結:
Mary Dejevsky review in Independent
David Pilling review in Financial Times
John Gray review in New Statesman
Ian Buruma review in Sunday Times
Will Hutton review in the Observer
Review in the Guardian
Oped email debate with Will Hutton; and forum in CommentisFree.
MJ op-ed article
MJ op-ed article
Review in the Economist
Philip Stephen’s column in Financial Times
Stephen Moss’s profile in the Guardian
Daily Telegraph review
George Walden’s review in the Scotsman
Dominic Lawson’s column in the Sunday Times
Interview with MJ in Canada’s leading news magazine - Maclean’s magazine
Maclean’s Editorial on China and my interview/book
Charles Grant, Hard Turn, Prospect magazine
Michael Elliott in Time magazine
Peter Lewis in the Daily Mail
Review in China International Business
Review in JoongAng Daily, South Korea
Review on ifeng.com, China
Review on wenweipo.com
Article in Thang Tien Viet Nam [Vietnam]
Jonathan Mirsky in the Spectator
主辦:
世新大學台灣社會研究國際中心,
台灣社會研究季刊社,
交大亞太/文化研究室
※活動照片※
Martin Jacques 台社論壇
The author of WHEN CHINA RULES THE WORLD
回應人:王超華,現任中研院近史所博士後 回應人:徐進鈺,現任台大地理系教授