摘要
中国古代边疆意识经历了一个复杂而曲折的发展过程,具有十分突出的特点与局限性。早期传统士大夫更强调以"中国"国内为重,强调爱惜民力,不免鄙视周边领土与民族,边疆甚至被视为"无用之地",故而常常将固守疆土与穷兵黩武混淆起来。对边疆地理认知的匮乏,在很大程度上影响到边疆意识的进步,而边疆争端与边疆争议是激发边疆意识成熟的催化剂,对于边疆民族与地理环境认知水平的进步,也是深化边疆意识最重要的前提条件之一。从"无用之地"到"一寸山河一寸金",再到"不可轻言弃也",都标示着中国古代边疆意识的阶段性提升、成熟与进步。
The perception of frontier experienced a long and complicated process of evolution in ancient China, and showed some particular features and shortages. In the mind of traditional officers and scholars, the inlands were usually regarded as the basis of empire, and more important than the frontier, and the borderland was even despised as the useless land. Emperors and officers should cherish civil peoples, so the wars of defending frontier were usually criticized as militarism. The ignorance of abroad geography influenced the perception of frontier to a great degree. Disputes over borderland indeed became one of the main catalytic agents to improve the perception of frontier, and in the meantime raising of the cognition level of abroad geography and nationalities inevitably deepen the perception of frontier. The changing of perception, such as ＂useless land＂, ＂golden land＂ and ＂valuable land＂, in fact represented the milestones in the process of improving on the perception of frontier.
出处
《社会科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2013年第3期130-139,共10页
Journal of Social Sciences
基金
复旦大学985三期重大项目“清代至民国时期边疆地区户籍管理与民族认知研究”(项目编号:2011RWXKZD021)与“中国崛起背景下边疆发展与周边外交的统筹研究”(项目编号:2012SHKXQN020)的阶段性研究成果
关键词
中国古代
地理认知
边疆争议
边疆意识
Ancient China
Cognition of Geography
Disputes over Borderland
Perception of Frontier
