《中国近代关税收入与分配统计》校勘记

Corrections to Tang Xianglong's Zhongguo Jindai Guanshui Shouru Yu Fenpei Tongji

晚清海关的奏销统计数据20年前已由汤象龙先生完成,由于各种原因,这些数据被利用时错误迭出。笔者利用有关档案从财政年度和统计口径方面考察了汤先生数据形成过程中的一些问题,并以浙海关为例,依据现存资料校勘了有关数据。浙海关统计数据存在的这些问题,目下经济史、社会史流行的大数据研究也当引起注意。

Tang Xianglong published his work two decades ago on the statistics of the budget and reimbursement of the customs service of Late Qing, but the data he delivered suffer many mistakes due to various reasons. From the perspectives of fiscal year and statistical standard, the author of this article uses archives to reexamine Tang＇s process of building his database. The article takes Zhejiang customs as a case study, in which it makes corrections to Tang＇s data based on available historical and financial archives. The author argues that the Zhejiang customs statistics have some problems and scholars who embrace big data approach in economic and social studies should be fully aware of the complexity of those materials.