2001年冬,榮新江教授結集出版了《中古中國與外來文明》一書,收録了20世紀最後十年及新世紀初撰寫的14篇論文及11篇書評[1],成爲他繼于闐史、敦煌學研究之後,在中西關係史領域的代表性成果,得到了國際學術界的廣泛認可[2]。儘管該書以“外來文明”爲題,内容涉及西域胡人與三夷教,但核心是在探討中古時期東遷入華的 In the winter of 2001, Professor Rong Xinjiang compiled and published “Middle China and Foreign Civilization,” a book containing 14 essays and 11 book reviews written in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the new century [1] After the study of history and Dunhuang Studies, the representative achievements in the field of the history of Sino-Western relations have been widely recognized by international academic circles [2]. Although the book is based on “Foreign Civilization ”, which deals with the barbarians in Western Regions and the Sanyi religion, the core is to discuss the eastern migration to China in the Middle Ages