晚清民国西北行记的近现代边疆认知

Cognition about the Northwest Frontier of China in the Travel Notes in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

晚清民国时期的西北行记,在全民族救亡图存谋求复兴的时代主潮与西北特殊自然社会环境的双重因素影响下,呈现出全新的时代特征。广大行记作者将注意力首先集中于对近现代西北社会复杂社会情状的考察认知上,西北行记真实细致地记录了近现代西北地区民众生存状况之恶劣、社会政治之落后、民族宗教问题之复杂。行记作者根据实际调查所得出来的若干判断,从一个侧面反映了广大边疆民族地区同胞的生存境遇,对于现代文明的深切诉求,具有很强的感染力。

The Travel Notes in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,under the influence of the main tide of seeking national salvation and rejuvenation and the special natural and social environment of the northwest,showed a new era characteristics.The authors of the travel notes focus on the investigation and cognition of the complex social conditions in the northwest of China,which makes the travel notes record the bad living conditions,the backward social politics,the complex ethnic and religious problems of the people in the northwest of China.The authors’judgments based on the actual investigation reflect the living conditions of the compatriots in the border areas from one side,as well as the authors'deep appeal for modern civilization,which has a strong appeal.