人口密度与中国封建小农经济的生成

The Density of Population and the Formation of Chinese Feudal Small-scale Peasant Economy

中国封建小农经济的生成是社会发展中综合因素促成的结果。从被同人学者所忽略的人口密度与生产方式即经济形态的关系来论证,中国从战国以来就已经是一个人口密集的国家;正是这种人口密度大的状况,导致了中国封建社会没有走西欧封建社会那种领主制下的大庄园经济的道路,而是走了中国独特的地主制下的小农户经济的道路。

The formation of Chinese feudal small-scale peasant economy is caused by the comprehensive factors in the social development. This article demonstrates it from the relationship of the density of population and mode of production, namely, mode of economy, which is generally ignored by our colleague scholars. China has been a densely-populated country ever since the period of Warring States. It is because of this that Chinese feudal society did not take the road of large estate economy under the feudal lord system of Western European feudal society but of a peculiar Chinese small-scale peasant economy under the landlord system.