地理科学 ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 1407-1415.doi: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2019.09.006

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论中国古代地缘战略制定中的“权衡”——以《盐铁论》为例

王丰龙1, 刘云刚2()   

  1. 1. 华东师范大学中国现代城市研究中心/华东师范大学城市发展研究院, 上海 200062
    2. 华南师范大学地理科学学院, 广东 广州 510631
  • 收稿日期:2018-08-20 修回日期:2018-12-10 出版日期:2019-09-10 发布日期:2019-12-02
  • 通讯作者: 刘云刚 E-mail:ygliujp@qq.com
  • 作者简介:王丰龙(1988-),男,内蒙古赤峰人,博士,副教授,主要从事政治地理学、幸福地理学等研究。E-mail:flwang@iud.ecnu.edu.cn;wfldragon@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(41571130);国家自然科学基金项目(41271165);国家自然科学基金项目(41601144);国家自然科学基金项目(41701149)

‘Weighing’in Making Geopolitical Strategy in Ancient China: Case of the ‘Salt and Iron’

Wang Fenglong1, Liu Yungang2()   

  1. 1. The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
    2. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, China
  • Received:2018-08-20 Revised:2018-12-10 Online:2019-09-10 Published:2019-12-02
  • Contact: Liu Yungang E-mail:ygliujp@qq.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(41571130);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41271165);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41601144);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41701149)

摘要:

《盐铁论》是记录汉朝时期关于盐铁酒榷均输及对匈奴关系的辩论的一部重要著作,能够较典型地反映中国古代地缘战略制定中的“权衡”过程。构建中国古代地缘战略制定中的“权衡”理论分析框架,继而基于该分析框架对《盐铁论》中的地缘战略辩论进行详细解读。《盐铁论》中辩论双方“权衡”的要点包含匈奴对汉朝产生的威胁程度、领土扩张所带来的收益大小和相应地缘战略的合法性3个方面。从思想、方法、目的等比较中西方地缘政治研究差异,指出“权衡”思想为西方主导的地缘政治理论提供新视角。

关键词: 地缘战略, 盐铁论, 权衡, 政治地理, 地缘政治

Abstract:

Chinese political geography has been characterized with a duality of exogenous and endogenous studies, the former mainly adopts external (esp. imported from western academia.) concepts, theories and paradigms to interpret Chinese political geographical issues yet the latter mainly uses local and practical perspectives to analyze political geographical patterns and make strategies. The exogenous research generally takes a dominant part in Chinese political geography. This has led to several problems such as the disembeddedness between Chinese practices and foreign theories, ignorance of topics important in Chinese context yet not covered by western theories, and lack of original knowledge contribution. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance the endogenous studies based on internal practices and terms. We argue that a theoretical inspection of political geographical thoughts should be a possible way to this direction. Based on our previous study (Liu and Wang, 2017), which mainly aims to provide a brief picture of ancient Chinese political geographical thoughts, we try to further discuss the specific topics (in this paper geopolitics) in detail based on certain ancient works (in this paper the Salt and Iron). In this line, we first propose a triple framework of weighing in making geopolitical strategies and then apply this framework to interpret the geopolitical debates in the Salt and Iron, which is a record of a famous debate on whether continuing the war on the Huns and whether maintaining the state-monopoly of sales of salt and iron in the Han Dynasty. It is shown that the two sides of the debate mainly weigh the pros and cons within the three dimensions of our triple framework: the security threats of the Huns, the cost and benefit of territorial expansion, and the legitimacy of different geopolitical strategies. We further compare the difference in ways of thinking, methods of analysis and aims of strategy-making between Chinese (ancient) and western (contemporary) geopolitical theories and summarize some special characteristics of Chinese geopolitical thoughts and theories. This paper also discusses three values and implications of the concept of "weighing" for both academic research and policy-making of Chinese geopolitics. First, weighing along with different dimensions in making geopolitical strategies and integrating multiple logics of territorial, economic and representation power is helpful to go beyond the dogma and traps of classic geopolitical theories and develop a more scientific Chinese geopolitics. Second, weighing gains and costs in different dimensions avails us to adopt cautious and rational view in geopolitical studies and avoid dangerous, extreme and risky tendency in making geopolitical strategies, and thus contribute to a more peaceful Chinese geopolitics. Third, weighing the issues and aims at both domestic and international scales is in favor of comprehensively examining the local and global processes and combining exogenous and endogenous studies, which may promote a more integrative Chinese geopolitics.

Key words: geopolitical strategy, Salt and Iron, weighing, political geography, geopolitics

中图分类号: 

  • K901.4