在阎宗临颇为广泛的治学范围中,尤以在中西交通史领域取得的成就最大,这主要得益于其与法国汉学之间深厚的渊源关系。阎宗临早岁在法语学术界的受教育经历,为其接受法国汉学的影响提供了良好环境。他的相关著述不但触及了法国汉学的主流,而且其研究对象、资料来源,亦或研究主题和思路,都与20世纪上半叶法国汉学界存在着紧密联系。其开拓的研究领域及学术观点和方法,也在20世纪下半叶的法国汉学界得到了回响。阎宗临在充分把握法国汉学发展脉络的基础上,从跨文化的角度开辟新说的做法,凸显出中国学者在国际学术界做出独特贡献的一种可能性路径。 Among Yan Zonglin’s rather extensive range of scholarship, especially in the field of traffic history of China and the West, the greatest achievement has been achieved, mainly due to its profound relationship with French Sinology. Yan Zong-lin’s early years of education in the French academic community provided a good environment for accepting the influence of French Sinology. His related writings not only touched on the mainstream of French Sinology, but also its research objects, sources of information, research topics and ideas, all closely linked with the French Sinology in the first half of the 20th century. Its pioneering fields of study and academic views and methods also echoed in the French Sinology in the second half of the 20th century. On the basis of fully grasping the development context of French Sinology, Yan Zong-lin opens a new perspective from the perspective of interculturalism and highlights a possible path for Chinese scholars to make unique contributions in the international academic community.