从甲午战争前欧洲人所绘中国地图看钓鱼岛列岛的历史

Diaoyu Islands on Maps of China Drawn by Western Cartographers before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895

本文主要介绍甲午战争(1894—1895年)前欧洲人绘制的8幅中国钓鱼岛列岛海域的地图特点,并与中国人绘制的相关地图作比较。从地名、地图在划界中的作用,以及18世纪西欧地图绘制已产生国家疆界的意识的历史背景等入手,论证甲午战争前钓鱼岛列岛早已进入中国管辖范围内。

After a comparison of Diaoyu Islands on eight maps of China drawn by western cartographers before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 with those drawn by Chinese from 1522 to 1874,this article discusses the role that place-names and maps play in the borderline division,and analyzes the background that the national borderline consciousness has already risen among western cartographers since the 17th Century.Since all of these maps drawn by western cartographers applied Chinese names for Diaoyu Islands and drew the same color of Diaoyu Islands borderline as that of China's Mainland,it concludes that Diaoyu Islands had been a part of China before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 even from a perspective of the other.