从民国报刊看近代四川农村经济破产之原因

An Exploration of the Causes of the Bankruptcy of the Economy in Modern Sichuan Rural Areas from the Newspapers in people's Republican Period

近代军阀统治下的四川(1918—1934年),饱受战火、灾害的蹂躏与摧残。在这一时期,广大农村经济濒临破产和崩溃,农业产量大幅度下降,劳动力锐减,耕地大量荒废,粮食极度匮乏,民生困顿,社会动荡不安,成为近代四川农村地区的真实写照。《新蜀报》、《川报》、《四川晨报》等当时的报刊蕴含了大量生动写实的资料,笔者试图通过对这些民国时期的报刊文献进行系统的整理和分析,以此来探索近代四川农村经济走向濒临破产和崩溃的具体原因。

Ruled by the warlords from 1918 to 1934, Sichuan was tom by wars and disasters. And this period of time saw that the economy in the vast rural area went to the brink of bankruptcy in that the agricultural production drastically decreased, the workforce dropped markedly, arable land became uncultivated, food was in terrible shortage. The people were living a deteriorated life and the whole society was gone chaotic, which was the real inflection of the rural area in modem Sichuan. A large amount of related lively and realistic data can be unearthed in the newspapers of that time such as New Shu Newspaper, Sichuan Newspaper, Sichuan Morning Post, etc. By sorting out and analyzing the data, the present author attempts to explore the causes of the ruin and bankruptcy of the rural economy in modem Sichuan.