近代江南市镇农桑社会观念嬗变探究--基于南浔市镇的梳理与分析

A Probe into the Evolution of the Social Concept of Farming and Sericulture in Modern Towns in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River: Sorting and Analysis Based on Nanxun Town

近代中国社会的肇始,无疑起自1840年的鸦片战争。当然,这是从大的历史角度析说。对于江南市镇南浔而言,这种大历史的观念形态,恐怕首先是随小传统的路径变化而移步换形。近代南浔市镇社会心理的嬗变,反映了中国社会在三千年未有之变局冲击下,耕与桑的变化过程是一个矛盾、迷茫与困惑交织,破既往观念形态与立近代观念形态交织叠加的曲折进路。传统向近代转进的历史路程,“使中国人不仅承受了旧生产方式衰落时的痛苦,而且承受了新生产方式发展不足的痛苦”。

The beginning of modern Chinese society undoubtedly starts from the Opium War in 1840. Of course, this is seen from the perspective of greater history. As far as Nanxun town in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River is concerned, this concept of greater history may first develop from the change of a small traditional path. The evolution of the social psychology of Nanxun in modern times can be seen from the fact that under the impact of the unprecedented changes in three thousand years, the process of farming and sericulture interwove contradiction, be wilderment withconfusion, and was a tortuous path of interweaving the breaking of the old concepts with the setting up of the modern ones. The historical journey from tradition to modern times "made the Chinese suffer not only from the decline of the old mode of production, but also from the underdevelopment of the new mode of production".