20世纪初旅日浙南籍下层华工商社群的历史变迁研究

A study of Southern Zhejiang Immigrants in Japan during the Early 20^(th) Century

文章通过对日文原始资料的解读,阐述了20世纪初旅日浙南籍下层华工商社群的历史变迁过程,论证了浙南籍华工商社群如何在中日经济差距的拉力下东渡日本,兴盛一时;该社群又如何在日本政府的排华政策和屠杀事件的推力下,迅速衰退。研究发现:日本浙南籍下层华工商社群的存在证明了日本华社不仅仅是华商型社会,华工也是其重要组成部分。但由于日本政府对从事非熟练劳动的华工一直持以排斥态度,华工社群退出历史舞台是必然的结果。

Based on a thorough study of the first hand Japanese materials, this paper elaborates the history of Southern Zhejiang immigrants in Japan. People of southern Zhejiang Province went to Japan for economic reasons and soon became a booming society there. But this booming period does not last for long. It declined rapidly because of the Japanese government’s exclusion policy against Chinese on the one hand and the massacre of Chinese on the other hand. By analyzing this changing process, this paper demonstrates the importance of the labor workers and shows that overseas Chinese society in Japan is composed by not only the businessmen, but the Chinese workers as well. However, it is inevitable for the Chinese Labor Workers to retreat from Japan considering of Japanese government’s exclusion towards the pure Chinese manual workers.