【文化史研究群講論會】
主講人：Joel Littler先生(東京大學東洋文化研究所JF-GJS研究員)、戴瑞祥Alan Dai先生(加州大學洛杉磯分校亞洲語言文化系博士生)
題目：「傳播媒介的多元匯流與文化鑲嵌」系列演講Ⅰ：革命、亡國與媒介
主持人：林芳如女士(中研院臺史所博士後研究）
與談人：吳叡人先生(中研院臺史所副研究員)
時間：2026年8月27日（四）14:00-17:00
地點：本所802室
備註：
1.本次演講以中、英文進行。
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在共同體消失或被取消之後，個人如何在宏觀的帝國擴張與崩潰之中，重新發明或跨越自己與「國」的關係？本場講論會以革命、亡國與媒介為核心，探討跨國的行動與媒介實踐，如何在裂縫中重構新的歸屬。
When communities disappear or are forcibly dissolved, how do individuals reinvent or transcend their relationship to “the nation” amid the sweeping tides of imperial expansion and collapse? Taking revolution, ruination, and media as its core themes, this workshop traces how those excluded or abandoned by existing orders in modern East Asia remapped new forms of belonging through transnational action and practice.

講題一：
Title:
How Do Revolutionaries Talk?: Writing in Secret and Entertaining in Public in Tokyo, 1902-1910  

Abstract:
At the turn of the twentieth century in Japan, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Filipino and many other revolutionary activists gathered in Tokyo. This paper discusses the strategies they used exchanging ideas and making themselves understood. This included speaking face-to-face, but also ‘brush talk’ in literary Sinitic, written translations, preparing written texts in advance of meetings, journals and newspaper articles, books, as well as oral performances such as naniwabushi. Chinese, Russian, and English were the main languages being translated into Japanese, but publications like Revolutionary Review (Kakumei Hyōron) were also a nexus for translating things from Japanese to Russian (in Volya) and Chinese (in Min Pao). As such, there was a transnational flow of ideas circulating around and through Japanese, with many origins and destinations. By examining sources left by various activists and intellectuals, this paper looks at how the same ideas were expressed differently in different languages, modes of articulation, and cultural contexts.

Bio:
Dr. Joel Littler is a Japan Foundation - Global Japan Studies Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tōbunken), University of Tokyo. He is a transnational cultural and intellectual historian of Modern Japan. His ongoing monograph project is titled A World Revolution: Imagining the Future in Meiji Japan, in which he examines the cultural and intellectual activities that emerged from the losing sides of Japan’s civil conflicts. Dr. Littler received his DPhil in History from the University of Oxford in June 2024. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University (2024-25), a Visiting Researcher at Kyushu University (2022-23) and as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Thammasat University and Mahidol University in Thailand (2018-20).

講題二：
Title:
Writing Ryukyu as a Lost Nation: Kiyuna Tsugumasa’s Postloyalist Writing in Historical Discussion of the Loss of Ryukyu
以琉球作亡國：喜友名嗣正（蔡璋）在《琉球亡國史譚》中的後遺民寫作  （中文發表）

Abstract:
While Taiwanese and Japanese scholars have already investigated in depth the political activities of Kiyuna Tsugumasa (Chinese name Cai Zhang) as an advocate for Ryukyuan independence in postwar Taiwan, this paper in instead turns its focus to Kiyuna’s 1951 work, Liuqiu wangguo shi tan (Historical Account of the Loss of Ryukyu), pointing out its unique position within East Asian literary history. Through a textual analysis and cross-referencing of historical sources regarding Kiyuna’s longest public-facing work, this paper not only contextualizes the immediate origins of this “history of a lost nation" (wangguo shi) within the postwar East Asian context and Kiyuna’s intelligence-gathering work on behalf of the Nationalist government, but also traces another of the work’s lineages: namely, the wangguo shi genre that flourished across China, Korea, and Vietnam in the early twentieth century. Kiyuna’s adoption of this genre to advocate for the “unification of China and Ryukyu into one integrated body” could admittedly be deemed an anachronistic loyalism detached from his time. However, drawing upon David Der-wei Wang’s theoretical framework, this paper argues that a postloyalist consciousness also emerges within Kiyuna’s work. At the historical juncture of postwar Taiwan and the Ryukyus, and on the cusp of the early Cold War in the Asia-Pacific, what Kiyuna mourns through the wangguo shi genre is not the historical reality of the Sino-Ryukyuan tributary relationship, but rather a phantasmatic past sculpted from the residues of history that comprise the present. By reexamining Cai’s writings, this paper explores the inherent contradictions embedded within modern political thought—even a thought so steeped in nostalgia—as it attempts to traverse national space and historiographical time, thereby offering a new avenue of inquiry for research into the history of Ryukyuans living in postwar Taiwan.
臺日學者固然已對喜友名嗣正（唐名蔡璋）在戰後臺灣鼓吹琉球獨立的政治活動進行深入分析，本文卻聚焦於蔡璋於1951年出版的著作《琉球亡國史譚》，並指出該著在東亞文學史上的特殊地位。透過對蔡璋這部篇幅最長、具普及性質的著作進行文本分析與史料比對，本文不僅將該部「亡國史」的直接起源，置於戰後東亞局勢與蔡璋爲國民政府從事琉球情報收集工作的背景下，亦追溯該著的另一歷史淵源——即二十世紀初風靡中、韓、越三地的「亡國史」文體。蔡璋採用此類文體以主張「中琉一體」的行徑，固可視爲其與時代脫節的遺民主義；然而本文借鑑王德威的理論以論證，該著作實則也萌發了蔡璋的「後遺民」意識。在戰後臺琉兩島的歷史轉折之間，在亞太各國冷戰初期之際，蔡璋以亡國史文體所哀悼的，並非中琉朝貢關係的歷史事實，而是某種立足於歷史殘遺的當下所塑造的幻想過去。本文對蔡璋寫作的重新審視，旨在探索現代政治思想（即便如本案般耽溺於懷舊）在其跨越國境的空間與史學的時間上的內在矛盾，從而爲戰後在臺琉球人的研究領域提供新的思考路徑。 
 
Bio:
Alan Dai is a second year PhD student in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. His dissertation will focus on the cultural history of bilingual periodicals in Taiwan, Vietnam, and Asian American communities during the twentieth century. His work has been published in the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies as well as History and Perspectives: The Journal of the Chinese American Historical Society.
戴瑞祥（Alan Dai），現爲美國加州大學洛杉磯分校亞洲語言文化系博士生。主要研究領域爲漢字圈現代史、華語語系文學史及比較文化史。目前專注於雙語期刊在20世紀臺灣、越南與美國亞裔社區的興衰歷程，論文曾發表於成均館大學東亞學刊與美國華人歷史學會會刊。

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