顾名思义,东方学是西方人为了了解、研究东方,亦或还用来掠夺东方所建立的学问。经过三、四个世纪的历程,又从中派生出了汉学、埃及学、亚述学等分支。中国人大约是从日本人那里知道东方学的。二十年代,陈寅恪先生去欧洲问津过东方学,不知为什么转向中古史去了。蒙文通先生也曾有过几本历史地理民族方面的专著,但生活的变迁终未使其形成大气候,还被当成『封、资、修』,惨死在『红卫兵』的刑凳上。正是在那个岁月,我第一次看到日本 As the name implies, orientalism is the knowledge that Westerners learn to study, study the East, or they are also used to plunder the East. After three or four centuries of history, they also derive Sinology, Egyptology, Assyrian and other branches. Chinese know Orientalism from Japanese. In the twenties, Mr. Chen Yinque went to Europe to study Orientalism, I do not know why the turn to the Middle Ages. Mr. Meng Wen-tong also had several monographs on history, geography and ethnicity. However, the vicissitudes of life have not yet brought about a general climate. They are also regarded as “sealed, funded and repaired” and are tragically killed on the stool of the “Red Guards.” It was at that time that I first saw Japan