从“经世济民”到 “计学”
2016-12-10龚琪峰
摘 要: 中国经济学概念的现代转型在清末民初的演进过程常深陷于“西化”与“欧化”之漩涡,然而近代中国西方经济学译介过程并非简单地移植,亦非中国传统经济学发展的结果,而是近代救亡图存的历史语境和传统经济学双重体系影响下的产物。从西方经济学的学科名称economics的庞杂译名中可窥一斑。虽最终以“经济学”胜出而告终,但严复所译“计学”在众多译名中独树一帜,其译名概念意义凸显了西方经济学的社会功用与学科功用,也在语言层面兼顾了中国传统经济思想中的经世之说,有利于学科确立和西方经济思想进一步传播。对“计学”的深入分析将有助于加深学界对近代经济学话语体系形成初期的认识。
关键词:计学,经济学,概念转型
中图分类号:F0;H159文献标识码:ADOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-8578.2016.05.015
From Traditional “jingji” to Yan Fus “jixue”: Case Study of Translation in the Conceptual Transformation to Modern Economics in Modern China//GONG Qifeng
Abstract: The conceptual transformation of “economics” has long been intertwined with Westernization and Europeanization in modern China. However, neither is a simple borrowing nor a natural evolution of Chinese traditional economics. The transformation is obviously featured by the sociocultural context of saving China and the influence from aboriginal economic thoughts. Various renditions of “economics” in modern China resonate with the transformational complexity. Although “jingji”, originating in China and being reintroduced from Japan, has been dominating economic discourse since then, Yan Fus translation “jixue” for “economics”, on one hand, has been giving prominence to the social and disciplinary orientation in Western economics. In this paper, the author tries to posit Yan Fus jixue within dual stratifications to set “economics” as a discipline in the late 19th and early 20th century, and further to reveal the initial formation of economic discourse in modern China.
Keywords: jixue, economic concept, transformation
收稿日期:2016-05-25
基金项目:江苏省教育厅高校哲学社会科学基金“翻译与中国近代经济学话语体系构建研究”(2016SJD740016)
作者简介:龚琪峰(1981—),男,硕士,中国矿业大学外国语言文化学院教师,主要研究翻译学、术语翻译。通信方式:garygqf@163.com。
为了向西方寻求救亡图存的道路,近代中国进行了不懈的探索,西方各学科知识在此背景下被广泛引入。经济学也披上了西方工具性色彩的外衣,成为寻求国富与民强的重要道路。西方资产阶级经济思想进入中国始于19世纪并在19世纪最后十年呈现喷涌之势。“在西方经济思想的冲合过程中,明显地存在两股力量:一是西方在华人员主动传播;二是中国知识分子致力于阐释、传播和调整西方经济思想,如马建中、严复、梁启超和康有为等。……
