琉球汉文文献与中国社会研究

Ryukyuan Chinese Works and the Study of Chinese Society

明清时期,东亚海域各国之间有着频繁的经济和文化联系。而在这种联系中,汉字是东亚邻国与中国交流得以实现的重要媒介之一。在长期的交往中,东亚邻国都形成了不少汉籍文献（在中国,这是被称为＂域外汉籍＂的重要组成部分）,这些文献,是我们得以将东亚视作一个具有相互联系的空间单位加以探讨的一个重要基础。

During the Ming-Ch＇ing period, the countries of maritime East Asia were in frequent economic and cultural contact with each other. In these contacts, Chinese characters were an important medium for facilitating exchange between China and its East Asian neighbors. In the course of this long-term exchange, each of the neighbor countries produced a considerable number of works written in Chinese, and they constitute an important basis for enabling us to examine East Asia as a single interconnected spatial unit. In recent years, large numbers of these overseas Chinese works have been published, and in particular Ryukyuan Chinese works have been attracting increasingly the atttention. Many publications have provided a considerable amount of new materials for the study of Ming-Ch＇ing history. Apart from materials on political and economic history,which had already attracted, they also include historical texts reflecting the life in East Asian society. Not only are these materials pertain to the history of cultural exchange between China and Ryukyu, but they also provide valuable materials for the study of Chinese social history.