跨越封闭的流动:中缅印交角地区远距离贸易交流史

Mobility and Circulation Across Closures:The History of Long⁃distance Trade Exchanges in the China⁃Myanmar⁃India Intersecting Region

自古以来,中缅印交角地区一直是多民族共居并存和交流共生的地理区域,也是维系中国与南亚、东南亚国家间贸易交流的重要链环地带。在复杂地理形貌和多元文化差异的影响和制约下,远距离贸易活动跨越群山和江河阻隔,需要依赖“贸易中转地带”和“中介民族”的传递输送,而持续不易的区内贸易和国际过境贸易之间,往往也存在着相互联动融合发展的状况。中缅印交角地区的历史并未被完全圈隔封闭在群山峡谷之间,源远流长的区内外远距离贸易让人与物流动起来,突破了地理与人文的重重阻隔,在交流互动的历史演进中起到了未曾断绝的基础性链环作用。全面认识中缅印交角这个三国交界的重要区域多向度远距离交往交流的发展历史,把握其作为链环地带多维度形成特质,对于重新认识和讨论“佐米亚”核心区域历史发展面貌具有特别的意义和价值。

Since the ancient times,the intersecting region bordering China,Myanmar and India has been a geographical region where multiple ethnics have long been coexisting,interacting and developing accrete relationships.It is also an important link zone for maintaining trade exchanges among China and the South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.Owing to the influence and restriction of complex geographical morphology and multicultural differences,long-distance trade activities across mountains and rivers need to rely on the“trade transit zones”and“intermediary nations”for the transit of goods.Besides,as often happens,there are cases of interaction and further development between the continuously hard intraregional trade and international transit trade.The history of this intersecting region has not been completely locked up and enclosed within the mountains and valleys.Instead,the well-established long-distance trade inside and outside the region has helped with population mobility and goods circulation,breaking through the geographical and social barriers,and this region has thus been continuously playing a fundamental link role in the historical evolution of communication and interaction.A comprehensive understanding of the development history of multi-dimensional and long-distance communication and exchanges in this important region at the border of the three countries of China,Myanmar and India as well as an overall grasp of the multi-dimensional formation characteristics of this region as a link zone will be of special significance and value in terms of rediscovery and discussion of the historical development of the core region of“Zomia”