17-19世纪中叶是中日书籍交流最为频繁的时期之一,书籍交流的方式较以往已发生了很大变化。汉籍除了传统的文化交流物品属性外,又增加了贸易商品的特性。本文以地方志为例,从经济学的角度,分析了17-19世纪中叶中国输日方志的数量、渠道、价格与利润,探索了中日方志贸易的特性以及日本重视方志收集的原因,进而从一侧面加深了人们对地方志在中日书籍交流史上意义的认识。

The era of the seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries was one when the exchange of books between China and Japan was most frequent and common. The pattern of book exchange also changed greatly. Besides being articales of traditional cultural exchange, Chinese classic works took on the characteristics of commercial goods. Taking Chinese Local Gazetteers as a case study, this paper examines the number, channel, price and profit of Chinese local gazetteers’ export to Japan from seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries from the perspective of economics. The article also probes the characteristics of the local gazetteers traded between China and Japan and explores the reasons for Japanese collection of local gazetteers. From this perspective we obtain a deeper understanding of the importance of Chinese local gazetteers in the historical literary exchange between China and Japan.