边缘视角·一体思维·多元格局——刘义棠《中国边疆民族史》的基本内容与学术贡献

Border Perspective,Integrated Thinking and Multiple Pattern:Historical Characteristics and Academic Contribution of Liu Yitang’s The History of Chinese Frontier Ethnic Groups

台湾民族史学者刘义棠在《中国边疆民族史》一书中,以游离于汉家王朝之外的边境民族为视角,阐释了中国民族"中央到边疆"的地缘政治、"历史与现实"的时间衔接和"多源至一体"的空间格局,以此形成的学术思维并代入于中国古代边疆民族的具体研究中,对中国民族史和边疆史地研究进行了有益的理论尝试与方法探索,亦襄助于边疆社会以及族群文化的学术拓展。

Liu Yitang,an ethnic history scholar in Taiwan,explains the geopolitical practice from the center to the frontier,the temporal connection between history and reality,and the spatial pattern of"multi-source and integration"from the perspective of the frontier ethnic groups remoting from the Han Dynasty in his book The History of the Chinese Frontier Ethnic Groups.His academic thinking is merged into the historical research of frontier Chinese ethnic groups,making a beneficial theoretical attempt and methodological exploration on the study of Chinese ethnic history and frontier history,and also helping the academic expansion of frontier society and ethnic cultures.