中国近代史上开眼看世界第一书《四洲志》的主编林则徐,亲自命名并委托魏源担任主编完成的《海国图志》,于1842-1852年连续3次出版,迅速传到日本并被争相购买,而在中国却被皇宫束之高阁。直至1978年中国实施改革开放,史地学界开始了研究《海国图志》的热潮,并高度评价其为"最完备的介绍世界历史地理的鸿篇巨著"、"中国近代第一本自编世界地图集"等。为了探索《海国图志》的成功秘诀,本文首先分析了《海国图志》100卷版内容构成,概括了《海国图志》发表后在中国与日本的不同反响;接着,重点探讨了《海图图志》的"设计思想、内容编排、编纂技术"等方面的地图学价值,以及"师夷长技以制夷"的编辑策略,着重于资料真伪分辨和发挥综合体裁协同效果等成功经验;最后,呼吁当今地图工作者努力吸取《海国图志》的宝贵经验,尽快编纂出版一本"内容真实、大型综合、服务民众"的综合性世界地图集。
"Hai Gou Tuzhi"is an atlas of the world, which was edited by Wei Yuan, who complied with the great trust of Lin Zexu.Based on the"four continents annals" created by Lin Zexu,"Hai Gou Tuzhi"was then published three times in a row between 1842 and 1852. Some mainstream scholars in China laugh at"it's childish", and China's imperial palace put it on the shelf. However, it was spread to Japan and the book sold quickly, which effectively promoted the reform revolution of Japan started in the middle of the 19 th century. Until the late 20 th century, China's implementation of reform and opening launched the research boom of "Hai Gou Tuzhi" by historian, geographer and cartographer, and they speak highly of it as "the most comprehensive magnum opus on the world for geography and history", "the first world atlas compiled in the near- modern of China", and so on. Firstly, this paper analyzed "Hai Guo Tuzhi" with its 100 volumes, which including 75 maps and 880,000 texts divided into 10 parts, including chapters of "The preface", "Coastal defense", "Maps", "Annals", "Religious calendar", "Countries in general", "Coastal defense in general", "Foreign affairs record set", "Weapons and equipment", and "The earth's astronomical theory". In the meantime, this research outlines the multi-angle studies and comments on "Hai Guo Tuzhi" from China and Japan, mainly discusses the values of cartography such as "designing idea","content arrangement", "compiling technology" and so on; as well as introduces the editing strategy of "Learning from Foreigners to Competing Foreigners", and successful experiences and focuses on distinguishing data authenticity and the comprehensive genre in editing"Hai Guo Tuzhi". All of these have important practical significance. At last, we suggest that today's cartographer should try to absorb the cartography"nutrition"from "Hai Guo Tuzhi" and positively response to the new requirements of the