Rethinking of "MUTSU Diplomacy" in Modern Japan

近代日本“陆奥外交”的再思考

• 批准号: 11620084
• 负责人: OHSAWA Hiroaki
• 金额: $ 1.86万
• 依托单位: KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1999 至 2000
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-11620084/
• 关键词: Tientsin Treaty; Modernization; Sino-Japanese Concord; アジア主義; 朝鮮永世中立化

The following insights can be gained from a critical examination of the references to the Tientsin Convention in Kenkenroku, Mutsu Munemitsu's personal account of the diplomacy of the Sino-Japanese War.1. The four perspectives on the Tientsin Convention in prior research lack proof, contain excessive value judgments, and are narrow in viewpoint.2. The perspectives on the Tientsin Convention in prior research can be found in contemporary evaluations and existed as marginal critiques. This means that the prior research completely ignores the core assessments of the period on the Tientsin Convention.3. The very framework of modern Japanese diplomacy is rooted in the problems in these assessments of the Tientsin Convention in prior research.4. The image of Mutsu's diplomacy presented under this framework was formed without critical examination of the references in Kenkenroku.In Kenkenroku, Mutsu intentionally downplays the political significance of the Tientsin Convention by focusing on the issue of legal interpretation. It could be thought that Mutsu did this out of a need to conceal his own diplomatic failure. From items 1 through 4 above, it is clear that the image of Mutsu's diplomacy created based on understanding Kenkenroku as unquestioned truth is very problematic in terms of proof.

通过对陆奥宗光个人对中日战争外交的记述《见间录》中对《天津条约》的引用进行批判性考察，可以获得以下见解。1．以往研究对《天津公约》的四种观点缺乏证据，价值判断过多，观点狭隘。 2．以往研究中对《天津公约》的观点可以在当代的评价中找到，并以边缘批评的形式存在。这意味着以往的研究完全忽视了这一时期对《天津公约》的核心评价。3．现代日本外交的框架本身就植根于先前研究中对《天津公约》的评估中存在的问题。 4．在这一框架下呈现的陆奥外交形象是在没有对《宪间六》中的参考文献进行严格审视的情况下形成的。在《宪间六》中，陆奥通过关注法律解释问题，有意淡化《天津公约》的政治意义。陆奥这样做可以被认为是出于掩盖自己外交失败的需要。从上述第1项到第4项可以明显看出，基于将“宪间六”理解为不容置疑的真理而创建的陆奥外交形象在证据方面存在很大问题。