The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Aesthetics and Power in the Making of Thai Identities

西方暧昧的魅力：泰国身份塑造中的美学与权力

• 批准号: 113158/1
• 负责人: Rachel Harrison
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=113158%2F1
• 关键词: Ambiguous; Allure; West; Aesthetics; Power

Thailand formerly Siam is one of the few countries in Asia never to have been colonised by a Western power. In its study of Siamese/Thai cultural relations with the West from 1850 to the present day, this project focuses on the country's interactions with the outside world, classifying them as semi colonial in nature and hence highlighting certain similarities it shares with postcolonial nations. The project therefore postulates a new basis for comparative Thai cultural studies, moving it away from the position of uniqueness that has characterised it to date. The Ambiguous Allure of the West and the Making of Thainess, co-edited by Rachel Harrison and Peter Jackson (Cornell UP, 2007) aims to manoeuver Thai studies into a potentially fruitful position of comparison, primarily through its attention to the historical details of Siam's cultural engagements with the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century and their impact upon the construction of Thai national identities which still pertain In the present. Harrison's extensive chapter on influence and imitation in early Thai detective fiction in Jedamski (forthcoming) pursues this argument with specific reference to literature and is further investigated in her monograph Roots of Comparison: Thai Literature and the West (forthcoming).

泰国以前是暹罗是亚洲少数几个从未被西方政权殖民的国家之一。在从1850年到今天对西方的暹罗/泰国文化关系的研究中，该项目着重于该国与外界的互动，将它们归类为本质上的半殖民地，因此强调了与后殖民国所共享的某些相似之处。因此，该项目假设了比较泰国文化研究的新基础，从而将其远离了迄今为止其特征的独特性位置。雷切尔·哈里森（Rachel Harrison）和彼得·杰克逊（Peter Jackson）共同编辑了西方的模棱两可的魅力和泰纳斯（Thainess）的制作，旨在将泰国人的泰国研究纳入比较的潜在富有成效的位置，主要是通过其对暹罗文化的历史细节的关注，其历史细节是对他们在九个世纪及其构建中的统治地位的统治地位，这是在纽约市的构建中的统治地位。哈里森（Harrison）在杰达姆斯基（Jedamski）（即将到来的）泰国早期侦探小说中的影响力和模仿的广泛章节，提到了这一论点，并以文学的特定参考，并在她的比较专着的根源中得到了进一步的研究：泰国文学和西方（即将出版）。