晚清宁波糖市概况及波动(1894-1897)——基于《尺素频通》的考察

General Situation and Fluctuation of Ningbo Sugar Market in Late Qing Dynasty(1894-1897)

宁波糖市长期以来不仅是浙闽台粤四地重要的糖品交易中心,且是近代东南政治、社会变动的“晴雨表”,乃窥伺近代中国东南贸易格局的绝好“窗口”。文章以《尺素频通》中有关宁波糖市的记录为基础,在还原其状况、分析其特点后,对宁波糖市在1894至1897年间的波动进行归纳,发现其呈现“起跌缓涨,再跌再涨”的周期性变化。同时,1895年台湾局势的重大变化以及周边新兴市场的兴起使得宁波糖市最后不得不以整体下行消迹的方式走下历史的舞台,这也是晚清甬—台—泉商业贸易网络解体的具体表现之一。

Ningbo sugar market has long been not only an important sugar trading center in Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan and Guangdong, but also a barometer of political and social changes in the southeast of modern China. It is an excellent “window” to watch the trade pattern in the southeast of modern China. Based on the records of Ningbo sugar market in the book Chi-Su-Pin-Tong, this paper summarized the fluctuation of Ningbo sugar market from 1894 to 1897 after restoring its status and analyzed its characteristics, and found that it presented a cyclical change of “rising and falling slowly, then falling and rising again”. At the same time, the major changes in Taiwan's situation in 1895 and the rise of the surrounding emerging markets made Ningbo sugar market finally had to go down the stage of history in a way of overall downward disappearance, which was also one of the specific manifestations of the disintegration of Ningbo-Taiwan-Quanzhou commercial and trade network in the late Qing dynasty.