主管单位:中国科学技术协会
主办单位:中国地理学会
承办单位:华东师范大学

世界地理研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 8-17.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2020.01.2019497

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李希霍芬的中国考察及其当代人文-经济地理学价值刍议

张晓平1(), 高珊珊1, 陈明星2,3,1, 刘卫东2,3,1()   

  1. 1.中国科学院大学资源与环境学院,北京100049
    2.中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所,北京 100101
    3.中国科学院区域可持续发展分析与模拟重点实验室,北京 100101
  • 收稿日期:2019-09-30 修回日期:2019-11-09 出版日期:2020-01-20 发布日期:2022-01-22
  • 通讯作者: 刘卫东
  • 作者简介:张晓平(1972-),女,博士,副教授,硕士生导师,主要从事经济地理学相关领域的教学与科研工作,E-mail: zhangxp@ucas.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(41771133);中科院战略先导科技专项A类项目(Y88P1100YT)

A preliminary discussion

Xiaoping ZHANG1(), Shanshan GAO1, Mingxing CHEN2,3,1, Weidong LIU2,3,1()   

  1. 1.College of Resources and Environment,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049,China
    2.Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101,China
    3.Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101,China
  • Received:2019-09-30 Revised:2019-11-09 Online:2020-01-20 Published:2022-01-22
  • Contact: Weidong LIU

摘要:

德国著名的地质学家和地理学家李希霍芬关于中国的研究成果打开了近代西方国家认识和了解中国的窗口,他命名的“丝绸之路”得到中外学者的广泛认同并沿用至今。国内学界对李希霍芬学术贡献的评述聚焦于他对中国地质和地球科学的贡献,但对其研究成果的人文-经济地理学价值尚缺少深入的总结。本文分析李希霍芬到中国考察的国内外政治经济和文化背景,以《李希霍芬中国旅行日记》为基础文献,梳理李希霍芬于1868~1872年间在中国的历次考察路线和主要考察内容,以及与中国古“丝绸之路”相关的考察计划;从当代人文-经济地理学视角总结分析了李希霍芬对中国研究的学术价值和贡献,如区位分析、“联系”与“流”的分析、农业地域差异分析、人地关系分析、制度与文化因素分析等;最后提出李希霍芬在中国的考察研究对当今“一带一路”建设研究及人文-经济地理学界的启示。

关键词: 李希霍芬, “一带一路”倡议, 人文-经济地理学, 区域合作, 文化交流

Abstract:

Ferdinand von Richthofen, a famous German geographer and geologist, had four years’ field investigation in China from 1868 to 1872.The publication of his research has provided references and platforms for western countries to understand more about China, especially the terms as “the Silk Road” coined by him has been widely used. Even though his academic contribution to geology and geosciences of China has been well recognized, the significance of Richthofen’s research in human&economic geography from contemporary perspective has not been well addressed yet. Firstly, this paper analyzes the political, economic and cultural backgrounds of Richthofen’s field investigation in China, which include political power expansion of Germany outside Europe, economic prosperity and technological revolution in Western Europe, academic orientation of higher education in Europe, religious and cultural communication between the East and the West, and the struggled situation of China at that time. Based on the documentaries related to Richthofen’s travel in China, the second part outlines his routes and contents of each investigation, which involved in cities opened to foreign countries as commercial ports and cities playing important roles as trade centers along “the Silk Road”. In his travel diary, Richthofen analyzed the locational change of main hub cities, including Hankou, Jiujiang, Wuhu,Zhenjiang,Guangzhou,Shantou,Ningbo etc., and recorded transaction networks of main commodities related to agricultural and manufacture products. In the third part, the significance of Richthofen’s research in human & economic geography from contemporary perspective is summarized, listed as regional and locational analysis, flow and network analysis, regional differentiation and human-territory relationship analysis, institutional and cultural analysis. Some classic thoughts in contemporary Economic Geography such as spatio-temporal correlation, regional differentiation and spatial connection can be abstracted from Richthofen’s research. This indicates that Richthofen is both a geologist and a geographer with interdisciplinary thinking, which deserves to be highly evaluated. It finally suggests that regional cooperation based on mutual understanding and cultural communication might be in the core of the successful implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative within related countries, which still needs more efforts to be put into. With cultural communication and bilateral cooperation between countries alongside the Belt and Road, economic integration to a higher level is expected to be achieved in the future.

Key words: Richthofen, The Belt and Road Initiative, human & economic geography, regional cooperation, cultural communication