清代城市的空间范围及其人口属性

Urban Space Domain and Population Identity in the Qing Dynasty

目前历史城市人口研究中对城市人口属性认识不一,我们必须辨析和厘定历史城市的空间范围和人口地理属性。质言之,历史城市空间范围由三部分组成,即城内、关厢和附城地区。检验文献记载的疑似城市人口数据合理与否的方法是城市人口密度法,这一方法远比目前学者们所用的城市人口占区域总人口5%的经验上限,要客观、合理得多。以往仅仅依据文献记载的"在城""在城里""郭厢里"等人口数所做出的分析和认识是不可靠的。

Since scholars differ in understanding of urban population identity in current studies of historical urban populations,we must do something to discriminate and analyze the space domains and population identities of historical cities. Generally,historical urban space domain consisted of three parts： interior of the city,outer city and peripheral areas. To testify the rationality of doubtful recorded data of urban population,the density of urban population has been introduced as a means that is much more objective and more reasonable than the best results by the urban population taking 5% of the regional population currently adopted by scholars. Those former analyses and understandings are not reliable only depending on the recorded number of people residing inside,outside and in the suburbs of the city.