试论商域宗族

On Clans in the Business Circle

以清季民国杨柳青商镇为个案,认为宗族及其延伸组织不仅为农人且为商人所有,其作为商人天然的自身与内层信任机构具有商营功能;商号是市镇的空间与记忆符号和基本组织形式,商绅、绅商是市镇大家族与宗族类型。它扩大了宗族类型研究。

Taking Yang-liu-qing Commercial Town in the late Qing dynasty and the period of the Republic of China as an example,the paper argues that clans and extensive organizations are not only shared by farmers but also by businessmen,and are regarded as organizations of the businessmen＇s spontaneous trust having the function of business operation. Firms are spatial and memory symbols of cities and towns,while clans of merchant gentlemen and those of gentry merchants are types of clans which expanded the research field.