近代以降,强邻环伺,边疆危机四伏,内忧外患的时代背景,激发起国人对边疆问题的关注与研究,推动了边疆考察与著述风气的兴盛。中国的边疆研究在百余年的时间内相继出现过两次高潮:一次是在鸦片战争前后,其标志是西北边疆史地研究的繁荣;另一次是在民国时期,尤其是抗战前后的二十余年里(20世纪20—40年代间),其标志是“边政学”的提出与展开。其中民国时期,学 In the modern era, the strong neighbor, the crisis of the border areas, the background of internal and external disturbances have aroused people’s concern and research on the frontier issue and promoted the prosperity of the frontier inspection and writing style. Over the past hundred years, China’s frontier studies have successively emerged two climaxes: one was around the Opium War and the other was marked by the prosperity of the historical research on the northwestern frontier; the other was that during the Republican Period, especially before and after the War of Resistance Against Japan In the years (from the 1920s to the 1940s), the hallmark is the proposition and expansion of the “theory of border politics.” During the Republic of China, learning