摘要： 晚清民初时期，德语游记中的中国水域空间呈现出自我建构与解构共在的现代性张力。通过对原本神秘的中国水域进行祛魅化想象，游记作者建构出有关中国水域的“线性空间”与“情感空间”，由此完成其帝国自我的身份形塑，体现出现代资本主义经济的“流动性”对东方世界的想象性简化与实用主义利用。然而，他们在中国水域内部的具身体验却呈现出一种异质的“流动性”——在充满肉身性的实际体验之中，来华德国人不仅改变了自己对于中国的成见，还借助在中国水域的深度游历收获了更为完整的中国知识。这一充满了观念重构意味的现代性想象，揭示了他者对自我的反向形塑，表明了现代“流动性”具有不同面向。这需要我们以开阔的世界主义视野，将文明互鉴与跨文化交流推向对话之境。

关键词: 晚清民初, 德语游记, 中国水域空间 “流动性”

Abstract: During the late Qing and early Republican era, depictions of Chinese water spaces in German travelogues reveal a modern tension between self-construction and self-deconstruction. By demystifying what had once been mysterious Chinese waters, travel writers constructed “linear spaces” and “emotional spaces” associated with these regions, thereby shaping the identity of the imperial Self and illustrating how the “mobility” inherent in modern capitalist economies imaginatively simplified and pragmatically exploited the Oriental World. Yet their embodied experiences within Chinese water spaces disclosed a form of heterogeneous mobility. Through visceral, situated encounters, German travelers not only revised their entrenched prejudices about China, but also acquired a more holistic body of China-related knowledge by undertaking in-depth voyages along its waterways. This modern imaginative reconfiguration highlights the reverse shaping of the Self by the Other, demonstrating that modern “mobility” encompasses multiple dimensions. It calls for an open, cosmopolitan outlook capable of advancing civilizational mutual learning and cross-cultural exchange into a genuinely dialogic realm.

Key words: late Qing and early Republican era, German travelogues, Chinese water spaces, “mobility”