一19世纪中叶以降,西方列强出于殖民主义目的,运用近代实证科学方法,广泛开展中国地理、经济、政治、社会组织、风俗习惯、宗教信仰等领域的调查活动,参与其事的有传教士、商人、军人、学者。日本作为后起的资本主义国家,又是与中国有着深刻历史文化渊源关系的近邻,其中国调查的强度颇有后来居上之势。近代日本的中国调查文献,一为文化人的踏访记录,如19世纪中叶到20世纪初叶,竹添光鸿、冈千仞、安东不二雄、宇野哲人、内藤湖南等 In the mid-19th century, the Western powers out of colonialism, the use of modern empirical science methods, widely carried out in China’s geography, economy, politics, social organization, customs, religious beliefs and other areas of investigation activities, involved in the missionaries , Businessman, soldier, scholar. As a later capitalist country, Japan is also a neighbor with profound historical and cultural relations with China. Its strength in surveys in China is quite on the rise. In modern Japan, the Chinese survey literature is a record of visits by cultural people. For example, from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Tetsuhiko Takeshita, Masahiro Okamoto, Ando Fujio, Umino Philosopher and Naito Fujio