中国旧海关统计的认知与利用

Cognition and Utilization of Chinese Traditional Maritime Customs Trade Return

近代中国旧海关统计种类繁杂,采编形式又时有变化,只有从海关统计制度的演变过程切入,才可以明晰统计文本变化的内涵,并且通过对各类数据的规范定义、计量方法、书写格式等方面的更多把握,才能获得有关旧海关统计文本全面准确的认识,以便评估数据的度量精度、长处与不足,以资于研究者利用晚清至民国这一最为完整、系统的第一手资料,去拓宽、深入近代口岸以及所在地区经济与社会变迁的研究。

Trade Return of Chinese traditional maritime customs comprises various statistical data, as well as different collecting and editing along with times. From the special aspect on the evolution of statistical institution, we could find the way to comprehend the connotation of these statistics. Moreover, based on much more understanding about defini-tion, method, style of every kind of data, we could recognize precisely and completely and evaluate its merit and defi-ciency, which should advance the exploitation of this most integrated, and systematic firsthand statistics during the late feudal China and the Republic, as well as broaden and deepen the issues of economical and social changes of treaty ports and their adjacent regions.