一个三角洲城镇的上游区域:16—19世纪西江流域的九江移民

The Upriver Reach of a Delta Town: Jiujiang Migrants in the West River Basin in the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries

本文将珠江三角洲九江集镇置于中国南部西江及其支流的城镇系统中,关注16至19世纪沿西江流域上游活动的官员、科举考生、商人和定居者,探索其作为一个移民社区的历史。西江水系的地理因素形塑了九江移民的迁移轨迹。与此同时,移民不仅同九江的各个家族为了发展社会经济而采取的策略有关,也同明清政府控制西南边疆的政策有关,在一个由经济纽带和个人关系网联系起来的统一区域的历史构建中扮演了重要角色。

This article situates the Pearl River deha market town of Jiujiang within a system of market towns and cities along the West River and its tributaries in southern China. Exploring the history of this town as an emigrant community, this article follows the upstream movement of officials, civil service examinees, merchants, and permanent settlers along the West River basin between the sixteenth century and the nineteenth century. The trajectory of migration from this market town was shaped by the geographical factors of the West River system. At the same time, migration, which was related both to strategies that Jiujiang families embraced for socioeconomic advancement and to policies that the Ming and Qing states adopted for controlling the southwestern frontier, played an important role in the historical construction of a unified region linked by economic ties and personal networks.