许景澄与帕米尔问题的交涉

Xu Jingcheng's struggle in Pamier negotiations

许景澄是晚清第一代驻外公使之一。他费时多年办理对俄交涉,其中帕米尔问题颇为复杂。交涉中他由最初的"严保我界"到赞同"派员会勘",由反驳"先撤卡,后堪界"到"增兵益备""出扎守边"的强力抗衡,后又荐举庆常联手交涉。谈判面临诸多制约,最终未能实现中方按"喀约"划界,但"互约止兵"的结果使"俄害稍戢",应给予肯定。许景澄为维护国家主权付出大量艰辛努力,交涉中尽管他存在失误,但公法尝试、刚柔并济、善用地图等新的外交策略之运用,体现了他与近代化外交的逐步接轨。

Xu Jingcheng was one of the first generation of foreign ministers in the late Qing Dynasty. During his diplomatic career,he spent most of the time handling with Russia. Among which Pamir negotiation was the most complicated one. His strategies included ＂protecting our border strictly＂at first then ＂taking a survey＂,refuting survey after retreating to safeguarding the border with more soldiers and weapons. At last he recommended Qing Chang to attend the negotiation. Though the negotiations were facing many constraints,the result was not as expected,it made the disaster from Russia concealed and deserved affirmation. Xu Jingcheng had done too much to defend state sovereignty.Despite his fault,his using of new diplomatic strategies such as the trial of public law,exercise a combination of inflexibility and yielding,using of map etc reflected that he had adapted himself gradually to the modern diplomacy.