| 英文摘要 |
Since the mid-19th century, the nations comprising East Asia have been greatly affected politically, economically, and culturally by Western imperialist countries, and as a result, intellectuals throughout East Asian nations attempted to apply Western knowledge to save their countries, among which in Vietnam, Phan Bội Châ 潘佩珠 (1867-1940) was typical. During the time of rising French colonialism and Pan-Asianism, he developed an unusual view of Chinese cultural characteristics and Zhonghua for his time. My research has found that the Pan-Asianism as proposed by Phan Bội Châu, Sone Toshitora 曾根俊虎 (1847-1910), Ōkuma Shigenobu 大隈重信 (1838-1922), and Dr. Sun Yat-sen 孫中山 (1866-1925) all emphasized the commonality of culture and of biological origin among Asian countries. Phan thought Vietnam was one of the countries with a long tradition similar to China and closely resembled China in terms of geography, historical development, biological origin, and culture, even believing he belonged to the Han ethnic group. Not only maintaining Vietnam and China were closely related like brothers, Phan also regarded China as the elder brother and thus should shoulder the responsibility of leading Asia. Influenced by Vietnam's ''double'' tributary system, namely Vietnam fell under China's tribute system whereas neighboring nations paid tribute to Vietnam, Phan expected that while China-as the elder brother of Vietnam-was the leader of Asia, Vietnam-as the younger-should lead both South and Southeast Asia. The thought of Phan embodied the views that Vietnam and China were of the same ancestry and were brothers; Vietnam's culture was Han culture. As for the subjectivity of the Vietnamese people, Phan, like many others, also regarded Vietnam as an independent country, and China and Vietnam were essentially two brothers following ''family division.'' To conclude, the present study exposes that Phan's idea of China-Vietnam relationships were a binary: on one hand biologically and culturally connected, and on the other, politically independent. |