比较历史学视野中的《百苗图》

清朝所绘制的《百苗图》是近代中国早期的民族志。将《百苗图》与日本及奥斯曼帝国所绘制的图绘进行对比,以一个比较历史学的视角来看待这些处于扩张时期的几个帝国,从而指出对他者的民族志兴趣并非欧洲所独有,而是普遍地存在于全世界的帝国体系之中。

Early Modern Ethnography in Comparative Historical Perspective

The Miao Albums produced in the Qing Empire is early modern Chinese ethnography.By contrasting the albums produced by Japanese and Ottoman with The Miao Albums,the author,from the point of comparative historical perspective,compares and analyzes these empires in expanding era,and argues that ethnographic depiction was not solely the province of the early modern West,and that cultural difference and its management has long been a preoccupation of the state world-wide.