CHINESE-MALAY RELATIONS IN CHINESE MALAYSIANS' EVERYDAY SUBJECTIVITIES
华裔马来西亚人日常主体视角下的华马关系

LEE Yok Fee 李玉辉
Universiti Putra Malaysia.
E-mail: [email protected]

马来西亚华人研究学刊，第20期，2017年，页19-43
Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, Volume 20, 2017: 19-43

Abstract

Since 1970s, studies on racial or ethnic relations in Malaysia have become popular in academic world. In the studies of Chinese-Malay relations, most writings are based on macro-level analyses, which mainly focus on social structures mainly in politics and economy but not the social actors. The characteristics of the social actors are always assumed as fixed, passive and homogenous. The abilities, creativity and roles of social actors are often underestimated. Therefore, there are very little micro-level studies conducted to understand the social construction of Chinese-Malay relations in Malaysia. This study is an attempt to scrutinize how Chinese in Malaysia perceives Malays and relates to them in everyday life. In this research, the author has employed the adductive approach, which refers to the process that privileges the social actors’ account to generate social scientific knowledge. For that, the in-depth interview method was applied to gather data from few respondents. The result shows that, as social actors, lay-Chinese have their own, though often disorganized, logical ways and methods in conceptualizing their relationship with Malays. In the “stimulated” and “binary oppositional” subjectivities, the construction of the Chinese-Malay relation is determined by the stock of knowledge, contexts and also the Chinese’ interactions with others.

Keywords: Chinese-Malay relations, Chinese Malaysians, social actors, subjectivity

摘要

自1970年代以来，马来西亚族群或种族关系的研究越来越受到瞩目。在华人-马来人关系的研究领域，大部分论文都属于宏观分析，至于微观研究却非常少。那些宏观分析大多聚焦于社会结构，集中于政治与经济，而非社会行为者。社会行为者的特征总是被假定为是不变的、被动的、同质的，他们的能力、创造力与作用常被低估。本文尝试审视，一般华人如何看待马来人，以及如何把自己与对方在日常生活中连接起来。本文采用溯因方法，也就是指着重于社会行为者的叙述来产生社会科学知识的方法。本文采用深度访谈来收集受访者的意见。研究结果表明，作为社会行为者，尽管经常显得混乱，但一般华人有着自己的逻辑与方法，去概念化他们与马来人的关系。在“受激发”与“二元对立”的主体性中，华人与马来人的关系建构，是由知识库存、脉络以及华人与其他人之互动所决定的。

关键词：华人-马来人关系、华裔马来西亚人、社会行为者、主体性

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