评论与争鸣
姜景奎
区域国别学.
2022,(1):
199-208.
The
article discusses the relationship between countries. Generally speaking,
whether between two or more countries, the idealized state of affairs is to act
in a mutually beneficial manner, i.e., if we do so, we hope that you or your
side will do the same, so that everyone can win or win more. However, the
reality is often not what we want, and what we are concerned about is not
necessarily what the other side is concerned about, and what we think is a win
is not necessarily accepted by the other side. Therefore, it is often not
possible to work in the same direction. At the time of the establishment of the
first-level discipline of area studies, we should change our thinking and act
in a way that we understand the other side instead of just moving towards each
other. Thus, we can anticipate the other side's reaction, and take the
initiative or even act unilaterally to ensure that we win, or even achieve a
win-win or multi-win situation.
This
puts forward new requirements for new disciplines and area studies. First, the
new discipline should be defined correctly. I think, area studies is a
regional-based field, the region refers to geography, environment, space, and the
field refers to the discipline, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary,
cross-disciplinary. Secondly, the new discipline comes with new environment.
Innovation is the most important, the purpose, mode and method of talent
training all need to be innovative; internationalization is also very
important, we need to go out and invite in, it is not feasible to close the
door for discipline construction. In the context of the two major situations in
the new era, it is necessary to have area studies talents with “three
perspectives”, namely, global vision, Chinese perspective and the perspective
of the other side. Such talents should treat the earth as a whole and humanity
as a community of destiny; they should have knowledge of traditional Chinese
culture and be patriotic but not narrow-minded; they should have a deep and
comprehensive understanding of the target countries and be able to see them
from each other's perspective.
As
can be expected, due to the pluralistic world and different concerns, it is
better to understand each other than to move towards each other, it is better
to be conscious and active than to be blind and passive. Compared with the
ideal state of moving towards each other, understanding the other is a more
pragmatic and rational orientation.