中国传统对外关系研究刍议

本文认为,以重大事件为中心的中国古代对外关系史研究,和以帝国主义侵华为话语的中国近代对外关系史研究,在当代带有严重的视域局限性.基于参与现代和对话现代的需要,它们可以归并到中国传统对外关系体系之中.而开展对中国传统对外关系的研究,不仅要考察朝贡体制在历朝的演变轨迹,还应关注封贡关系行为与对外政策、涉外思想三者之间的互动.

On the research of traditional China's foreign relations

Based on the needs of joining into modernity and talking with modernity,both the research of ancient China's foreign relations which emphasized important events in history and the research of modern China's foreign relations which took imperialist aggressions against China as speech system should belong to the system of "traditional China's foreign relations".In order to promote the research of traditional China's foreign relations,we should not only investigate the development of tributary system in every dynasty,but also take a closer look at the mutual relations among conferee-tributary relations,foreign policy and foreign-related ideology.