在中国近代史中，黄遵宪是一个多重意义上的存在，他是梁启超最为推崇的“诗界革命”的代表，其相继出使日美英新的经历在当时同属第一代职业外交官的群体中也属少见，回国后他更成为湖南新政的主要推手。之前的黄遵宪研究多将其置于中国近代史或近代文学的脉络加以展开，当然这是由他自身的地位决定的。但本论文想强调的是，黄遵宪的日本题材写作实践不仅囿于近代中国历史及文学的语境，而是在汉文知识圈的大背景之中发生的。尽管出使日本未满五年，但是黄遵宪的日本题材诗文创作和修改却几乎贯穿了他的一生。这些文本不仅是文学创作或历史写作的成果，也是其政治实践的一部分.对黄遵宪而言，文学是政治的，政治表达也是文学的。如果把《日本杂事诗》、《人境庐诗草》中的相关诗作、《日本国志》以及黄遵宪对日籍的题批序跋与日人的唱和笔谈视为广义的汉诗文的写作实践，那么需要注意的是这样的写作实践是在汉文知识圈发生变化之际发生的。西力东渐以及18世纪以来日本内部的民族主义冲动，都使得汉文的地位在明治前期开始变得微妙，一方面西学盛行之下废止汉字的呼声愈演愈烈，另一方面汉文又作为重要的元素实际参与到日本社会对西方近代知识体系的接受当中。彼时的汉文知识圈正在进行重新的调整和建构。黄遵宪的汉诗文写作实践与日本的汉学家、汉文文本构成一种复杂的互文关系，这其中不仅包含文化关系，还包含近代东亚国际政治冲突和地域秩序变迁等政治和历史关系。本论文正是要探索这一过程中围绕着汉文写作实践所展开的权力关系和话语秩序，只有将黄遵宪的书写实践置于汉文知识圈重构的大背景下加以审视，详细展开所关涉的文本互文及政治“互文”，才有可能更为全面和深刻的把握其日本题材诗文创作，也才能从中揭示汉文知识圈重构中的书写政治是如何发生的。

Although Huang Zunxian (1848-1905) has left a lasting name among his countrymen as the best poet in the movement of Poetry Revolution in Late Qing, he would probably have preferred to remain famous as a successful diplomat and political reformer. Appointed as Counselor to the Imperial Qing Legation to Tokyo in 1877, Huang was the first Chinese who tried earnestly to comprehend and narrate the changes and reforms taking place in Japan. Departed from previous studies that locate Huang in the history or literary history of modern China, this dissertation underscores the fact that Huang’s writings centered on Japan was born within the broad Sinograph Community.In despite of his short-lived sojourn in Japan for only five years, Huang kept a life-long interest in revising the Japan-related texts. These texts not only stand for the achievement of his literary of historical writings, but also embody his political pursuit. If we regard his Japan-centered poems, Riben guozhi (Treaties of Japan), gift poems and brush talk with Japanese literati and diplomatic texts as the broad practice of Chinese writings, it becomes evident that his writing practice overlapped the transformation of the Sinograph Community. The position of Chinese writing in Japan had undergone a subtle change as the result of Japan’s acceptance of Western knowledge and the surge of Japanese nationalism in the 18th century. Indeed, the Sinograph Community was under reconstruction.Huang’s writing practice is defined by a form of intertextuality which includes the Chinese writing texts of Japanese, the poltical conflicts in Asia as well as the historical transformation of the regional structure. By locating Huang Zunxian’s works back to their original context and historical environment, this dissertation aims to explore complexity deployed among dicourses of power, ideology, and language that were centered on the Chinese writing. I argue that the complexity and the delicacy of his writings centered on Japan can be sufficiently evaluated, only when they are read against the historical background of the reconstruction of this broad Sinograph Community, and all the contextual and political intertexualities involved are unveiled.