民国初年的库伦边贸——关于怀安周家库伦边贸的访谈

The boder business of Kulun during the early years of Republic of China——An interview on Kulun frontier trade of Zhou family in Huai’an

随着草原丝路受到越来越多人的关注,挖掘草原商道文化成为我们研究的新课题。2018年有幸结识河北怀安籍年近九旬的姐弟二人,其父正是清末民初穿越草原荒漠到大库伦贸易的商贩,买卖持续近20年。本文以采访回忆录的形式,记述其父当年跑库伦做生意的经历,以此弥补草原丝绸之路早已湮灭的实录史料。

With more and more people paying attention to the grassland Silk Road, mining the culture of grassland business has become our new research topic.In 2018, I had the honor to get acquainted with a brother and sister from Huai’an, Hebei Province, who were nearly 90 years old. Their father was just the trader who went through the grassland and desert to Great Kulun during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The trade has lasted nearly 20 years. In the form of interview memoirs, this paper recounts the experience of his father’s business in Kulun those years, so as to cover the shortage of historical records of the long annihilation of the grassland Silk Road.