作为自然地理因素的海峡,其在海洋交通史、海洋贸易史乃至国际关系史中扮演怎样的角色?可以用什么样的视角对海峡进行研究?近来已有学者对这一问题给予相当的关注。德国慕尼黑大学东亚研究所普塔克教授提出,从东部日本海到远西波斯湾的各种亚洲海域,可以被视为一连串独立的而又相互联系的海洋实体,起联系作用的正是若干重要海峡,如果这些海峡不存在,那么这些海域则仍然是独立存在的实体。他进而开始思考将海峡作为特 As a natural geographical factor of the Strait, what role can it play in maritime traffic history, maritime trade history and even the history of international relations? What kind of perspective can be used to study the strait? Recently, some scholars have paid considerable attention to this issue. Professor Puttke at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Munich in Germany proposed that the various Asian seas from the eastern Japan Sea to the far West Persian Gulf can be regarded as a series of independent but interconnected marine entities. Strait, if these straits do not exist, then these waters are still independent entities. He then began to think of the Straits as a special