“文社经济繁荣说”是否一个假命题

"Literati Associations and Economic Prosperity" Is a False Proposition

明代末年文人社团为何在"江南"兴盛?学术界归因于江南繁荣昌盛的商品经济。这是经济繁荣促进文学兴盛的普遍规律,我们无意对此进行质疑,但对此也要作具体分析。我们知道,明代万历前期经过张居正的十年改革,社会经济再度呈现辉煌局面,但也未能阻止住明末社会全面衰退的历史命运。在这样的历史背景下,江南经济是否仍然保持其繁盛的强劲态势?如果江南社会经济在明末社会全面衰退的大背景下也开始衰退,那么,"文社经济繁荣说"就有可能是一个假命题。对此,我们不得不辨。

The academic community thinks that the prosperity of literati associations in the late Ming dy- nasty was attributed to the economic prosperity in the South. As we know, the ten - year reform by Zhang Ju - zheng in the Ming dynasty made society and economy prosper, but the fall of the Ming dynasty was still recessing. In this background, the economy was recessing in the late Ming dynasty. If so, literati as- sociation promoted by prosperous economy may be a false proposition.