如果说,对西部的地理发现,是早在张骞时代就已完成的话,那么,由19世纪开始的,则是对西部的全新发现,是一次博物、考古、民族、语言、艺术等等领域的大发现。正是在这一发现过程中,一个由“藩服、边疆、郡县”环绕构成的老大帝国轰然坍塌,代之以一个“世界——中国”的观念下的现代中国。 If we say that the geographical discovery of the west was completed as early as the era of Zhang Qian, then the beginning of the 19th century will be a completely new discovery of the west and a field of museums, archeology, ethnicity, language, arts, etc. Big discovery. It is in this process of discovery that a giant empire empire consisting of “fan service, frontier, county” collapsed and replaced by a modern China under the concept of “world - China.”