“江南道路”与“英国模式”的比较

Comparison Between "the Jiangnan Way" and "British Mode"

"江南道路"是针对"英国模式"的学术回应,旨在比较发掘明清时期中英两国经济领域的相似性。一直以来,该项比较研究集中在以经济领域的异同为核心的事实层面上,批评意见也主要是针对经济水平异同的确认和如何解释工业革命产生的原因而提出的,尚不见从其自设的对象内涵和比较方法方面所作的专论。实质上,"江南道路"和"英国模式"是一对表达经济转型的质变动态概念。转型的巨大社会风险决定了经济转型是不可自律的,二者经济结局的背离不能通过过去的经济异同自我说明。因此,该比较研究既要面对转型前双方经济是否相同的问题,也要面对转型前的相同是否必然产生相同结局的问题。由于缺乏主位经验比较、没有严格遵循比较对应原则和对影响经济转型的因素的复杂性认识不足,该比较研究在这两个问题上所给出的结论均不具有可靠性。

The hypothesis of ＂the Jiangnan Way＂ is a academic response to ＂British Mode＂,to reveal the economic similarities of China and England in the period of Ming and the Qing dynasties through the contrast.The discussion and the comments given on the comparative research have focused on the level of the facts around the economic field,and have been mainly in allusion to perceive the similarities and differences of the economic developments and how to interpret the procreant causes of British industrial revolution,without a specified discussion in terms of the comparative objective connotations and comparative method introduced by the scholars who engage in this comparative research.Virtually,＂the Jiangnan Way＂ and ＂British Mode＂ are the trend concepts of qualitative change expressing economic transition.Enormous social venture behind transition determines that economic transition can not be self-disciplined and that the eventual deviation of economic transition can not be self-explained through the previous similarities and differences of economy.Therefore the comparative research is in the face of not only the issue whether both economies before the transition were similar but also the one whether it was a necessity that the similarities before the transition made similar finals.The conclusions of two issues given by the comparative research,however,are not reliable because of an absence of comparative experiences,a lack of following strict comparative principle of parallelism,and being deficient in cognition of the complex facts impacting economic transition.