宗族与义仓:清代宜兴荆溪社区赈济实态

Lineages and Charitable Granaries: Charitable Relief in the Yixing and Jingxi Areas during the Qing Dynasty

本文利用地方志和族谱等资料，对清代宜兴、荆溪地区的宗族赈济设施──义仓的发展概况作了一个案例分析，并着重探究了在义仓管理运营乃至社区赈济中所表达的血缘和地缘的关系。指出在清代江南社会中，宗族组织往往通过发挥其的功能性职责而不是固守系谱观念，以便在社区整合中真正达到控制地方社会的目的。

This article uses local gazetteers and clan genealogies from the Yixing and Jingxi regions in order to analyze lineage- organized charitable granaries. It focuses on the relationship between kinship and regional social structures in the management of charitable granaries and relief. The article concludes that in Qing - era Jiangnan society, lineage control of local communities could not be realized until the lineage fulfilled its service function to the entire community rather than limiting its attention solely to its own lineage.