摘要
19 世纪后半叶至 20 世纪初,随着洋务运动的开展和西学东渐思想的渗透,象征着机巧之物的西方照相机、留声机和打字机开始传入中国.中国人对此主要表现出两种态度:一方面,是对西方科技文明的迷惑和惊羡;另一方面,又心生保守与拒斥.在消费文化和近代工业发展的推动下,照相机、留声机和打字机演绎了审美现代性和社会现代性的双重变奏,它们从图像、声音和文字的知识生产及传播角度,塑造了现代中国的形象.
Abstract
From the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century,with the development of the Westernization movement and the in-filtration of Western culture into the East,some ingenious devices,including the camera,phonograph,and typewriter,began to be introduced into China.Chinese people mainly show two attitudes towards this:on the one hand,they are confused and amazed at Western scientific and technological achievements;On the other hand,they remain conservative and rejected.Driven by the development of consumer culture and industry,the camera,phonograph,and typewriter represented the variation of aesthetic modernity and social modernity,and through images,sounds,and words,they also shaped the image of modern China from the perspec-tive of knowledge production and dissemination.