严复海权思想初探

A Tentative Study of Yan Fu's View of the Maritime Rights

严复是我国较早接触与传播马汉海权论者。他借鉴马汉的海权理论形成自己的海权思想,认为海权关系到国家的贫富强弱和国际地位高下;不缔造海权,陆权也只能随之丧失。他呼吁我国应在日本海、渤海、黄海、东海与南中国海海域建立制海权,规复海军,实行海上交通控制,拒敌于海洋国土之外。其建立海权具有"国振驭远之良策,民收航海之利资"的政治与经济的双重目的,体现了其海权思想和国防观由传统向近代的转变。

Yan Fu was relatively early to keep in touch with and propagate The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660~1783 in China. He drew lessons from the Sea Power Theory of Alfred Thayer Mahan to form his own idea of the maritime rights. Yan Fu deemed that a country's maritime rights were in connection with its international status and whether it was poor or prosperous, strong or weak. No land power could exist without sea power. Therefore he called upon his country to establish supremacy at the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan. Yan Fu emphasized the need of reintegrating the navy, implementing maritime traffic control and resisting the enemy outside the marine territory. There was a dual-purpose consideration for politics and economy on his mind. It shows the conversion of his view on national defence from traditional to modern.