| Summary: | 博士 === 淡江大學 === 中國文學系博士班 === 101 === This dissertation mainly discuss on the documents of Java in Siku Quanshu. The documents used in this dissertation have been selected for the strongest narratives reason which able to represent Chinese historians note on Java observations. The purpose for using these selections are to disclose what kind of historical knowledge had been conveyed by historian, and the historian point of views when they made note on Java. Through reading and analyzing the texts, readers (and I as a researcher) could found that Chinese historians paid attention on three things: relations between China and Java from Han to Ming dynasty; Java kingdoms and their culture conditions in ancient times; and last but not least was Java natural resources.
Relations between these two countries had been laid on “tributary relation” concept, and this kind of concept brought a big country culture on seeing the other small country culture’s point of view. Chinese historians
notes on Java kingdom’s political and cultural condition, can help Chinese readers (especially shipmen and merchants) to understand the general conditions of Java and its people. Notes on Java natural resources, not only
gave the reader information about many kind of Java natural resources that could not be found in China, but also become the best literature for Chinese merchants to find Java commercially valuable goods and help them to open
commercial exchange with Javanese merchants.
Documents of Java in Siku Quanshu are so plenty.Information inside those documents not only able to help to enrich Indonesian history, but also have some possibilities to help Indonesian historian to reconstruct Indonesian
history.
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