明清徽州书院的经费来源问题探析

An Analysis of the Fund Sources in Huizhou Academy of Ming and Qing

明清时期,徽州地区书院的经费不管是外部投入还是自身经营,都与中国其它地方有很大不同。外部主要来源于民间捐助,而非政府资助;内部创收则采用贷出收息和投资房产的商业化的方式。这种特殊的经费来源方式与徽州独特的文化氛围,徽州宗族以及徽州的商业环境有密切的关系。

In Ming and Qing, the external financial input and the internal fund management in Huizhou Academy were quite different from those of other academies in China. In Huizhou Academy, the external financial input primarily came from private donations, rather than government funding; the internal income was a result mainly from loaning money to Huizhou Merchants to earn interest and purchasing houses to collect the rent. This particular approach of fund sources is closely related to the special cultural context and the social environment of lineages and merchants in Huizhou.