2012年6月8日下午1:30，Bill Ashcroft教授在机械楼3036进行了其后殖民主义系列讲座的第三场：《东方主义》。

《东方主义》是由后殖民理论家爱德华・萨义德著述的后殖民研究中里程碑式的一本书，并由此创造出“东方主义”这一专业术语。该书出版以来引起文学界广泛关注，学者们开始思考如何解读“东方主义”这一概念。阿什克罗夫特教授在其讲座中阐述了萨义德的创作意图：即其对于“他者”的关注。

东方主义既是一门学科，又是一种思考方式，更是一个处理东方问题的机制。无论从哪个角度讨论，这一概念都强调了一种国际文化关系，在这种关系中，西方人以其特殊的方式解读东方人，认为他们野蛮、女气、充满异域风情。赛义德，尽管具有矛盾身份，试图用该书扭转这一方式，行使其学者具有的权力，即讲述真相。

阿什克罗夫特教授对《东方主义》这一书进行了深刻解读，同时指出中国学者可以借此进行更深入的相关研究。

Professor Bill Ashcroft’s Third Lecture at HIT: Orientalism

June 8, 2012, Professor Bill Ashcroft gave his third lecture at HIT about Orientalism at 1:30 p.m. in Room 3036 of Jixie Building.

Orientalism, as a book written by Edward Said, is one of the milestones in post-colonial studies, creating the concept of orientalism. Since publication, this book has aroused wide critical studies and drawn scholars’ attention on how to interpret orientalism. In Bill’s lecture, he mainly focuses on the three pursuits of orientalism and the worldliness of Said in writing this book, by which Said reveals his concern for the “other” represented by Europeans.

In Prof. Bill Ashcroft’s lecture, it can be known that orientalsim refers to an academic discipline, a style of thought and a corporate institution for dealing with the Orient. From whichever perspective, the concept is used to indicate the global cultural relations, in which Europeans have their “special” way to know the Orient as barbaric, feminine, and exotic. Said, despite his paradox identity as a British Palestinist, aims to reverse the gaze of the Europeans and conduct his function of being an intellectual, to speak truth to power.

Prof. Bill Ashcroft makes a penetrating analysis of Said’s Orientalism and points out how Chinese scholars could use it to have a further study on post-colonial topics.

By Qian WANG

（文/王倩、图/代新枚）

Bill Ashcroft教授在讲座

讲座现场