海缘世界:两宋时期的域外民族志研究

The World of Sea Margin:Study of the Overseas Nationality in the Period of both Earlier and Later Song Dynasty

任何一个时代有关域外知识的汇集,都与特定的国家战略和对外贸易有一定的内在关联。两宋时期,随着中国经济重心南移东倾,政治地理结构的变化和海洋经济要素的增长,以使节、商人为主的各种不同人群的穿梭往来,作为域外世界新鲜的知识与信息的"报道人",他们的所见所闻为宋人建构域外世界诸多国家的图像提供了可能。正是在海外世界知识汇聚的过程中,以《诸蕃志》《宣和奉使高丽图经》为代表的域外民族志作品集中涌现出来,这些作品的书写特点、体例、内容等均对后世域外民族志的撰述产生了直接的影响。

In any era,the collection of overseas knowledge is related to the specific national strategy and foreign trade.During the Two Song Dynasty,as China’s economic gravity transfers to southeast,political geography structure changes together with expanded marine economic factors,envoys and merchants of different groups of people communicating and exchanging with each other as'reporters'of the overseas new knowledge and information,they provide the possibility for the construction of different countries’image by what they sees and hears.During the process of knowledge gathering in the overseas world,'History of Foreign Countries'and'Korean Map used by missionary in Song Dynasty'as representatives of overseas ethnography works focus on the emergence,the writing features,style,content and so on brought a greater impact on the future generations.