提起鸦片战争后肇始的“开眼看世界”的思潮,人们很自然地会想到林则徐、魏源、姚莹、包世臣、徐继畲及《四洲志》、《海国图志》、《康輶纪行》、《安吴四种》、《瀛环志略》等一些人物和著述。但相比之下,徐继畲和《瀛环志略》研究却长期受到冷漠。在相当一段时间里,除美国学者德雷克在1975年推出力作《徐继畲及其瀛环志略》和台湾学者方闻在1987年出版《清徐松龛先生继畲年谱》外,建国以来,大陆学术界尚未出版关于徐继畲的学术专著。有些史学论著中提到徐氏时,多视之为妥协派代表,《瀛环志略》中一些分析西洋诸国富强之道的精思伟论,常被一些史家当作魏源的言论引用、赞扬,这实在是一种历史遗憾。但令人欣喜的是,80—90年代之交,学术界出现了徐继 Mentioning the trend of “seeing the world open after the Opium War”, people naturally think of Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan, Yao Ying, Bao Shichen, Xu Jishe and the Four Continents, “,” An Wu four “,” Yinghuanzhilue “and some other characters and writings. However, in contrast, Xu Jishe and ”Yinghuanzhilue" research has long been indifferent. For a long time, except for the American scholar Drake’s introduction of the masterpiece Xu Jiyu and his Annals in 1975 and Fang Wen, a Taiwanese scholar, in 1987, Academics about Xu Jiyu have not been published yet. In some historians, when referring to Xu, he often regards it as the representative of compromise. Some of the thought-provoking theories in analyzing the rich and powerful of the Western nations in the Annotation of Yinghuan are often quoted by some historians as Wei Yuan’s speech and praised This is really a historical regret. However, it is gratifying that at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Xu Ji emerged in academia