民国时期闽籍华侨数量估算及其分布

Population Estimation and Distribution of Overseas Fujianese in Southeast Asia of the Republic of China

20世纪上半叶,因华侨人口统计资料不完整、方言群统计数据缺失及各国对华侨身份的定义不一,且国内外海关出入境数据诸多缺陷,估算这一时期闽籍华侨人口须谨慎运用这些数据。论文通过分析相关史实,搜集各国现有统计数据,结合现有相关研究与各方估计,考察闽籍华侨较为可靠之数据及其所占比例,以东南亚为重点,估算各国闽籍华侨人口,再推及世界。至20世纪40年代末,世界闽籍华侨人数约有322万人,约占世界华侨总数的三分之一。

In the first half of the 20th century,because of incomplete statistics and lack of dialect group statistics and different definitions of overseas Chinese identity,there were great differences among various kinds of population data. More than that,customs statistics were far from the real overseas Chinese population statistics,therefore,the data should be used with caution when estimating. Through analyzing relevant history and collecting the existing statistical data and combining the exiting relevant research and estimates of all parties,this paper aims at estimating the population of Fujianese in Malaya( including Singapore),Borneo,Indonesia,Philippines,Myanmar,Thailand,Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos during the period of Republic of China. Based on the estimated statistics of overseas Fujianese in Southeast Asia,the author hopes to estimate the statistics of worldwide overseas Fujianese. By the end of the 1940s,the population of overseas Fujianese was about 3. 22 million,accounting for about one third of worldwide overseas Chinese.