地域会馆与商帮建构——明清商人会馆研究

The Regional Guilds and the Trading-Group Construction——A Research on the Guilds of the Merchants in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty

商人会馆的出现 ,是明清时期商品经济发展和大宗贩运贸易兴起的产物。本文认为 ,作为一种社团组织的会馆 ,实际上是贩运商帮建构的表象和媒介。会馆组织的建构和发展 ,是贩运商人通过“笃乡谊 ,祀神祗 ,联嘉会”的文化纽带以及“利”、“义”的契合实现群体整合的过程 ,同时也是商人在自我建构和发展过程中把社群认同和国家象征结合起来的结果。

The emergence of the guilds of the merchants, is the products of the economic development and trading on large scale in Ming and Qing Dynasty. The author in this essay holds that as a community, the guilds of merchants, are in fact an image and a media among trading groups.