清末民国时期湖南的米谷市场和商品流通

Grain Markets and Commodity Circulation in Hunan in Late Qing and Republican China

湖南米谷向外省输出与省内的流通在清末民国时期持续发展,其水平要高于清朝全盛时期。杂粮也日益成为重要的商品粮。与过去湖南是“地主市场”看法不同,本文认为此一时期的米谷市场是“农民市场”。洋货包括洋米在内,在二十世纪三十年代湖南农村并不占多少比重,本文对中国农村的半殖民地半封建社会的性质至少是对帝国主义经济侵略的效果表示了怀疑。

The export of Hunan grains to other provinces and its circulation within the province witnessed sustained growth that exceeded the high Qing period. Coarse cereals became an important marketable grain. Contrary to the viewpoint that Hunan was a ＂landlord- oriented market,＂ this paper argues that the grain market was a ＂peasant-oriented market＂ during the late Qing and Republic. Foreign goods, including foreign rice, did not occupy a large proportion of the trade. Thus, this paper casts doubts on the notion that rural China was semi - colonial and semi - feudal, at least in terms of the effects of aggressive economic imperialism.