一中国海外交通史作为一种有系统的专门的学科来研究,大概始于十九世纪末和二十世纪初。顾名思义,海外交通史是研究中国与海外各国海陆交通的建立和发展,而不是限于研究中国和海外各国的海上交通。例如我们谈到我国和印度尼西亚关系的时候,就会提到晋代的僧人法显。他从陆路由中国西北出境,到印度求经,他回来时是由恒河口岸附船列 A Chinese history of overseas traffic studies as a systematic and specialized discipline, probably beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As its name implies, the history of overseas traffic is to study the establishment and development of sea and land transport between China and overseas countries, not to study maritime traffic in China and overseas countries. For example, when we talked about the relations between our country and Indonesia, we referred to the Fa-hsi monks in the Jin Dynasty. He departed from the northwest of China by land and went to India for advice. He came back from the ship by the Ganges Port