論日本中國古文書學研究之演進──以唐代告身研究為例

A Review of Japan's Scholarship of Ancient Chinese Documents: Example of the Studies on the Gaoshen System of Tang Dynasty

With the unprecedented discovery of the four types of historical materials in the early 20th century, two branches of the diplomatics on Chinese ancient documents in Japan have been developed. The fundamental one is to invest, collect and collate documents. And the second one, applied diplomatics, is consist of the studies of materials' form, pattern, function, and circulation. Take the study of gaoshen of Tang Dynasty in Japan for example. Its scholarship shows that the diplomatics in Japan has gone through striking development. Scholars who study gaoshen also referred to the research on remnants of Tang Statutes, bureaucracy in Tang, and cultural and legal exchange between Tang and ancient Japan. Japanese experience on studying diplomatics is referential when China wants to establish its own diplomatics.