摘要
商人作为商业活动的主体、商业社会的核心组成部分,通过活跃市场、积极参与社会事务等活动成为城市中最活跃的因素,对城市发展产生重大影响.清末民相,山西地区的城市由于活跃的商人活动而有较大发展,不仅城市数量有所增加,一些城市的职能与性质亦发生了改变.太谷城在彼时山西城市发展中较有代表性,由最相晋中的一座县城逐步发展为商业城市,并于清末民初一跃成为山西乃至华北地区的金融中心,其发展过程与商人活动密不可分.太谷商人积极的商业活动及广泛的贸易往来在使自身财富增长的同时,更促进了太谷商业的繁荣.他们积极参与管理太谷的公共事务,在努力推动当地教育事业发展的同时修桥建庙、救济乡里,并在此过程中对清末民初太谷的城市风尚产生了重要影响,使太谷城由县政中心转变为商业金融业中心.
In modern China, business group and regional businessmen rised rapidly during that time. Taigu, was a typical representative of the towns in Shanxi during this period. It arose in the late Ming dynasty, developed to the height in the period of Qing and early Republic of China, and became a financial center at Shanxi Province even in north China. There was an important meaning for us to research the Taigu’s development from a mere administrative center to the development of commercial center, and eventually to become the financial center. During the period of Qing and early Republic of China,Taigu’s merchants’ positive business activities and a wide range of trade migration not only made their own wealth constantly grow, but also promoted Taigu to be a commercial town and made the city gradually became the most important financial center of Shanxi Province. At the same time, they also active participa et in public affairs, trying to promote the development of local education, bridges temple, relief donation. This paper discusses the role of merchants in urban development to find the inherent relationship between the merchants and the city.
出处
《城市史研究》
CSSCI
2017年第2期236-253,共18页
Urban History Research
基金
2012年国家社会科学基金项目“集聚视角下的清代山西城镇研究”(项目编号12CJL009)
2016年山西省科技厅软科学项目“互联网+模式下的山西省装备制造业集聚发展研究”的阶段性成果
关键词
商人活动
清末民初
太谷
金融中心
Business Activity
the period of Qing and Early Republic of China
Taigu City
Financial Center
