从历史理解中国:近代来华西人的中国历史书写及其路径演进  

Understanding China in History:Westerners’ Wrings on Chinese History in the Modern Era and Changes of Their Approaches

作　　者：崔华杰[1] Cui Huajie

机构地区：[1]山东大学历史文化学院

出　　处：《近代史研究》2022年第2期139-151,M0004,共14页Modern Chinese History Studies

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“近代西人对中国边疆的史地书写与路径演变研究”(21YJC770006)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：鸦片战争爆发之前,来华西人将中国历史当作叩开中国国门的必备认知信息加以研究。此后,借助于殖民主义的地理扩张,西人在书写中国历史过程中形成了地方视角的研究特点,将历史视为认知地方的知识背景。这种从历史的维度审视和理解中国的路径取向,助推西人逐步发现中文文献所承载的世界史事资源以及中国历史所蕴藏的文明规律。对来华西人中国历史书写内容的构建及其路径演进的揭示,有助于我们理解西方的中国认知在近代的生成及其变迁。Before the outbreak of the Opium War,westerners in China studied Chinese history to know more about this old country that they were eager to open to the outside world. Galvanized by the geographical expansion of colonialism,westerners incorporated a local perspective in their writings of Chinese history out of the conviction that history provided the knowledge background to understand a locality. Such an approach,with its merit of examining and understanding China from the perspective of history,helped westerners discover the implications to world history of the Chinese literature and unveiled the logic of civilization behind the Chinese history. Westerners’ wrings on Chinese history and changes of their approaches shed important light on the formation of western perceptions on China and their changes in the course of time.

关 键 词：中国历史 来华西人 历史书写 海外汉学 

分 类 号：K092[历史地理—历史学]