清代广东与日本船舶贸易中的汉籍交流初探

On Chinese Book Exchange in the Port Trade Between Canton and Japan in the Qing Dynasty

广东作为沿海大省,港口商贸发达,船舶制造较为先进。清代广东与日本的港口商贸活动频繁,带动了汉籍交流。虽然日本明治维新后,西学盛行,汉学衰落,汉籍受到空前冷落,但港口船舶贸易中,书具、文籍不少,单就广东地方志而言,一年中有多达十二部传入日本。商贸来往也使近代广东的经济、生活、教育等被载入日本商人的游记中,成为重要的研究史料。另外,清代诗歌作为明治汉诗人崇尚与学习的对象,也对汉籍传播带来影响。

As a big coastal province, Canton has blooming port trade and advanced shipbuilding. It had frequent port commercial and trade activities with Japan in the Qing Dynasty, which improved Chinese book exchange. After Meiji Reformation, although Chinese learning was declining due to the increasing popularity of western leaming, and Chinese books were unprecedentedly left out in the cold, still a lot of Chinese books were exchanged in the port trade. For example, as many as twelve Canton topographies entered Japan in one single year. These port trade activities made Canton＇s economy, life and education etc. recorded in Japanese businessmen＇s travel notes, which make up important historical materials today. In addition, Chinese poets in Japan took poetry of the Qing Dynasty as their learning and appreciating target in Meiji Period, which also influenced Chinese book exhange.