摘要
对历史时期中国城市的整体性研究,尤其是城市体系研究,受限于历史时期城市人口的获取难度,并未得到全面而深入的分析。本文选取了近代中国若干套较为可信的城市人口数据,同时以施坚雅城市数据和中国旧海关贸易数据作为验证,对近代中国的城市体系从位序规模角度进行了深入分析。本文发现,近代中国城市体系的分布,在某些年份趋近于位序规模标准曲线。整体上,呈现出一个典型的面积广阔而历史悠久的大国才会出现的较为标准的位序规模分布。通过与欧洲近代早期城市体系的对比研究,本文认为,20世纪初期的近代中国城市体系进入了农业社会末期“成熟”而稳定的状态,即使经过了大规模战争和政权更迭,城市体系仍旧保持着极大的历史稳定性和惰性。
The study of the integrity of China cities in the historical period,especially the study of urban systems,is limited by the difficulty of obtaining urban population in the historical period,and has not been comprehensively and deeply analyzed.This paper selects several sets of more credible urban population data in modern China.At the same time,as well as the data of G.W.Skinner city and China's customs trade data,the urban system of modern China is analyzed in depth.This paper finds that the distribution of modern Chinese urban systems approaches the standard curve of the rank-size rule in some years.On the whole,it presents a relatively standard size distribution of a typical large country with a long history.Through the comparative study with the early modern European urban system,this paper believes that the modern China urban system in the early 20th century entered the“mature”and stable state at the end of the agricultural society.Even after large-scale wars and regime changes,the urban system remained great historical stability.
出处
《中国经济史研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第2期21-37,共17页
Researches in Chinese Economic History
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“近代中国贸易网络的研究——以旧海关源汇数据为中心的分析(1873—1942)”(批准号:13YJC770051)的成果
用友公益基金会第二届“商的长城”一般项目“近代中国邮政地理信息系统建设”资助。
关键词
近代中国
城市人口
城市体系
位序规模
Modern China
Urban Population
Urban System
Rank-Size Rule
