新华社北京12月11日电《晚清美国驻华公使柔克义涉藏档案选编》（中英文对照版）一书日前已由五洲传播出版社出版。     

    柔克义曾在1905到1909年间担任美国驻华公使馆公使，他同时还是西方著名的藏学家，曾两次赴中国西藏实地考察，精通汉语和藏语。在柔克义留下的大量档案资料中可以看出，他始终认为“西藏是中国不可分割的一部分”“西藏应服从中央政府”。他在与美国总统西奥多·罗斯福的通信中清晰完整地表达了这一观点，并代表美国政府向十三世达赖喇嘛当面表明了这一立场。     

    这本档案选编共分两部分。第一部分介绍了柔克义对藏学的研究和两次赴西藏和其他藏区游历情况，并对一些重要的涉藏文献进行了解读，以便读者更好地了解这些文献产生的历史背景和重要意义。第二部分重在呈现档案的原始面貌，既包括柔克义的游记和学术研究资料，也包括1908年十三世达赖喇嘛到北京觐见光绪皇帝与慈禧太后的档案文献。这些档案资料包括外交电报、往来书信、会谈纪要、政府文件、中文报刊剪报、文章手稿、日记等，以影印件的形式呈现并辅以誊清的中英文文字内容，以便于读者阅读。     

    该书作者系原北京语言大学副教授程龙。2008年作者在美国南卡罗来纳大学任教期间开始关注柔克义其人其事。其后多次赴美国哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、国会图书馆、国家档案馆、史密森学会博物馆等地搜集研究柔克义涉藏档案并得到对方支持配合。     

    本书适合国内外关注藏学研究和中美关系史的专家学者、高校师生和对西藏历史感兴趣的普通读者阅读。（完）

    Tibet documents of late U.S. diplomat published

    BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior U.S. diplomat in China in the early 1900s insisted that Tibet was an integral part of China and should obey the central government.

    A bilingual edition of William W. Rockhill papers related to Tibet has been published by China Intercontinental Press, the publisher said Sunday.

    The scholar-diplomat served as the minister of legation of the United States in China, the highest U.S. diplomatic representative to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), from 1905 to 1909.

    The book has many documents relating to Rockhill and Tibet. In addition to his Tibetan travels and studies, it includes important archives and documents about the 13th Dalai Lama's requesting an audience with Emperor Guangxu, China's penultimate emperor; and Empress Dowager Cixi, Guangxu's aunt, in Beijing in 1908.

    The book also contains diplomatic telegraphs, letters, minutes of talks, government documents, newspaper clippings, manuscripts and diaries, the publisher said.

    Rockhill traveled to Tibet twice and was a renowned Tibetologist.

    He explicitly expressed this view in his correspondence with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and declared his standpoint to the 13th Dalai Lama on behalf of the U.S. government.

    The book is in Chinese and English.

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