作为与近代中国的历史进程相同步的一个文类，晚清域外游记突出地体现了“过渡时代”所面临的问题。从“天下”走向“世界”，时人经历着中国和西方、传统和现代的双重体验，游记中的“春秋战国”和“夷夏之辨”，描述了传统精神理念在面对西方文明尺度时的自我调适。洋务派官员和出洋使节对“春秋战国”的认同和借用，为传统的中国中心观念转变为现代的对等国际观念提供了契机，表明一种新的世界意识正在萌生。在“夷夏之辨”的相关叙述中，传统的“夷夏”观依旧牢固，但夷、夏之间的位置有时也会发生翻转，这缘于“夷夏之辨”本身的丰富意涵，以及近代中国特殊的历史境遇。%The overseas travels in late imperial China exist in the process of the modernization of China, and reflect the task of the transitional era. From “Tianxia” to “the world”,people had dual experience be⁃tween China and the west on the one hand and tradition and modernity on the other. “The Spring and Au⁃tumn and Warring States Period” and “Yixia Conception” in the overseas travels describe the self⁃adjustment when Chinese traditional culture confronted Western culture. The western affairs party and diplo⁃matic envoys identified and made use of “the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period”, which provided opportunity for the transformation from“China⁃centered” to the international conception,and signi⁃fied that new world consciousness was generating. In the depiction of “Yixia Conception”, the transitional view still functioned well,but the position between Yi and Xia overturned sometimes,owing to the rich mean⁃ing of the conception itself and the special historical circumstance of China at that time.
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