技术传播、商业资本与绫绸之利:明清吴江黄溪史氏经商活动探赜

Technology Transmission, Commercial Capital and Silk Profit: A Study on Business Activities of Family Shi of Huangxi in Wujiang During the Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清时期,苏州城内和吴江县南境的丝织业发展及纺织技术的传播,有着难以隔断的紧密联系。由于种种机缘,黄溪史氏在吴中的部分房支被不同程度地卷入到各种围绕丝织业的商业活动中。明清之交,黄溪与盛泽一样,从一个普通的农业聚落逐渐发展成为著名的丝织业市镇。透过这些转变,不仅可以窥见江南以丝织业为代表的城乡手工业的结构性重组,而且有助于我们深刻理解明清全国市场流通的某些关键机制。

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the development of the silk industry and the spread of textile technology in the southern part of Wujiang County was closely linked with that in Suzhou City. Due to various circumstances, some of the housing branches of family Shi of Huangxi in Wujiang were involved in various commercial activities related to the silk industry. At the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huangxi, like its neighbor Shengze, gradually developed from a common agricultural settlement into a famous silk industry town. Through the above changes, we can not only see the structural reorganization of the urban and rural handicraft industry represented by the silk industry in Jiangnan, but also have a better understanding of some key mechanisms of the national market circulation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.