鸦片战争后,西北边疆史地研究在学术研究的动因、方式、关注的内容、资料来源上与鸦片战争之前相比,既有继承,也有变化。在研究目的上继承了之前注重经世致用的一面,在研究方法上则没有延续文献考辨与实地考察相结合的方法,而是考证与论述相结合,在研究内容上关切现实和实事求是并重,在资料来源上呈现出多样性。 After the Opium War, the research on the history and geography of the northwestern borderland inherited and changed as compared with that before the Opium War because of its motivation, method, content of concern and source of information. In the research purpose inherited the previous emphasis on the practical aspects of the world, in the research methods did not continue the literature review and fieldwork combination of methods, but the combination of research and exposition, the content of the study concerned with the reality and pragmatism both , Showing a diversity of sources.