顿逊是东南亚的一个古国。三国时成书的万震《南州异物志》最早记载了这个国家的情况。后来竺芝的《扶南记》、《梁书》的《扶南国传》,杜佑的《通典》,又陆陆续续地对它作了介绍。由于顿逊地处古代东西方交通的要冲,国际贸易又非常发达,所以在中西海外交通史的研究中,占有重要的位置。多年来,中外学者研究不绝,意见也颇纷纭。本文拟在分析史料的基础上,试就顿逊的地理位置、贸易情况,作一粗浅的探索,以就教于中西交通史研究的前辈。一、顿逊的地理位置顿逊又名典逊、典孙,都是古人对顿逊一名的异译。顿逊的地理位置在哪里?近代学者 Dunnton is an ancient country in Southeast Asia. When the Three Kingdoms Wan Shizhen “Nanzhou foreign body” earliest recorded the situation in this country. Later, Zhu Zhi’s “Fu Nan Ann”, “Liang Shu” “Fu Nan State Biography”, Du You “Tongdian”, and it introduced one after another. Because Dunun was located in the hub of ancient East-West traffic and developed very well in international trade, it occupies an important position in the study of Sino-Western overseas traffic history. Over the years, Chinese and foreign scholars have not studied, opinions are quite different. Based on the analysis of historical data, this paper attempts to make a superficial exploration on the deteriorating geographical position and trade situation in order to teach the predecessors of the study on the history of Chinese and Western traffic. First, the fierce geographical location Dunsen aka Xunxun, Code grandchildren, are an anonymous translation of the ancients. Where is Johnson’s geographical position? Modern scholars