多元视角下的朝贡体系与中外关系史研究

Revisiting the Tributary System and History of Sino-Foreign Relations through Multiple Perspectives

费正清提出了“朝贡体系”并视其为古代中国对外关系的主要模式,引起了国内外学者的讨论。本文试图从中外关系史中对“朝贡体系”理论的批评出发,思考从相关的区域研究(特别是内亚研究)视角,引入辞令分析、信息流动以及对于重估古代政体间关系等近年海内外研究成果,来提供中外关系史与世界史耦合的一种可能。

John King Fairbank's proposal of the“tributary system”as the main mode of foreign relations in ancient China has aroused discussions among scholars in China and abroad.This paper draws on recent works on the tributary system and demonstrates how area studies,especially Inner Asian studies,have influenced new developments in the field of history of Sino-foreign relations,exemplfied in rhetoric analysis,information circulation and reappraisal of interpolity relations in Asia.