编者按:“边疆”这一词语在国人心中所引发的想象,往往关乎征战的悲怆、垦殖的艰辛以及荒蛮淳朴的异域风情。这种想象有几分脱胎于中国传统的天下观:边缘是相对于中心的存在,它是文明向外生长之地,亦是保留有异质性的未开化地区。传统中华 Editor’s note: “Frontier ” This term in the minds of the people triggered by the imagination, often related to the tragedy of war, cultivation hardships and wild simplicity of exotic. This kind of imagination is partly based on the traditional Chinese outlook on the world: the edge is relative to the center, it is the place where civilization grows outward and it is also an uncivilized area that retains its heterogeneity. Traditional Chinese