The Cultural Organization of Cross-Boundary Travels: The Application of Database to the Research of Taiwanese Travel Literary History

[[abstract]]臺灣文學史上的旅遊作品蔚為長流，不論是臺灣在地文人旅外詩文，或世界各地來臺人士的旅遊書寫，多蘊含作者的跨界文化比較觀。探討十七世紀以來的旅遊文學作品有助於理解他們觀察文化錯綜的思索面向，並能進一步釐析作者跨界後的心理。資料庫提供有志於旅遊文學研究者豐盈的素材，若能蒐集各類型的文本將有助於議題探索的深化；又藉由廣泛瀏覽相關的史料，則能拓展跨領域的研究視野。因文學史的研究需透過對作家及作品的考察，以探討文學發展過程的特性；同時必須兼顧複雜的時空背景，始能理解文學史重層的脈絡意義。故以臺灣旅遊文學史為主題，應用資料庫蒐集相關文本與外緣背景史料，以探討臺灣旅遊文學發展的脈絡。全文從幾個面向加以論述：（一）縱遊古今：旅遊文學的時間脈絡，（二）跨越疆界：旅遊文學空間移動的意義，（三）旅者與主題的對話：旅遊文學作者的視域。期望經由這些層面的探討，能有助於廣泛蒐羅臺灣旅遊文學史專題研究的素材。[[abstract]]Travel writing has its flow in Taiwan travel literary history. Not only the poetry and prose of Taiwanese local literati's traveling abroad, but the writing of people around the world visiting Taiwan contained the author's comparative point of view of cross-boundary cultures. Expounding on the travel literature dating back from the 17(superscript th) century would help one understand the author's crisscrossed dimensions when they were observing the culture, and may enable one to define the author's psychology after they crossed the boundary. The database can provide researchers ambitious for travel studies with abundant materials. Collect all types of texts will be helpful for one to deepen the exploration of an issue. Also, by extensive dabbling of related historical material, the view of cross-field research will be broadened. Nevertheless, probing into the process of literature's development and identifying its characteristics requires discussions through investigations of authors and their works. At the same time, the complicated time and space background should also be taken into consideration; only by doing so will one understand the sequential meaning of cascading literature history. Therefore, the research uses Taiwanese travel literary history as the theme and applies the database as the media to collect related texts and peripheral materials of historical settings in order to explore the contextual development of Taiwan travel literature. The whole research will discourse through several dimensions. First, the cruise through the ancient and the modern: the time sequence of travel literature. Second, the crossing of the boundary: the meaning of spatial movements in travel literature. Finally, the conversation between the traveler and the theme: the field of view of travel literature authors. The paper aims to add up to and broaden the searching and collecting of Taiwanese travel literature case studies' materials by probing into these dimensions