十五至十六世纪江南粮长的动向与高乡市镇的兴起--以太仓璜泾赵市为例

Activities of Grain Collectors in Fifteenth-Sixteenth Century Jiangnan and the Growth of Cities and Towns in Gaoxiang:A Case Study of Zhaoshi in Hengjing,Taicang

15—16世纪,江南高乡地带出现了以姓氏命名的新兴市镇,创市者有不少是明前期永充粮长制下的世袭粮长。高乡地带的开发历程自元朝海漕时代开启,不同时期社会机制的变化,影响着其间乡村权势的演变和经济格局的变迁。这说明16世纪下半叶以后的江南市镇全景,其实是不同时代成立的市镇"层累"发展的结果,这一"层累"发展的过程,折射出明初以后江南社会经济结构的延续和内在转变。

New cities and towns bearing the names of certain families appeared in Gaoxiang, Jiangnan, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The founders of these cities and towns were hereditary liang zhang (grain collectors) under the early Ming system of permanent liang zhang. Gaoxiang had begun to thrive when maritime transportation developed there in the Yuan. Changing social mechanisms at different times shaped power shifts in the villages and changes in economic patterns. Jiangnan cities and towns from the late sixteenth century on were in fact the outcome of the cumulative development of cities and towns founded at different times. This process of cumulative development reflects the socio-economic evolution and internal changes of Jiangnan society from the early Ming period onward.