南通:以工业革命推动中国城市近现代化的典范

Nantong——The Model of Driving Chinese City to Modern Times andThe Modernization by Industrial Revolution

南通城市发展的个案 ,在中国近代史上具有突出的意义。鸦片战争以后 ,开埠城市多以或快或慢的商业化开始了其畸形发展或分裂式发展 ,而非开埠的南通则以工业革命为动力 ,以抵制封建皇权的自治为屏障推动了城市的近现代化 ,并在发展中较好地处理了城乡关系、工农关系和传统手工业与近代机器工业的交接 ,在很大程度上避免了英国式圈地运动的血腥过程的重现。南通的城市文化形态与城市保障体系等也为全国之先。从一座封建城镇跃进为一座资本主义近代城市的南通 。

After the Opium War, the open cities began to develop deformedly or splittingly mainly by quick or slow commercialization. Nantong, a none-open city, depending on the power of Industrial Revolution and protection by resistance to the autonomy of feudal imperial power, drove itself to Modern Times. It dealt with the relationship of urban and rural areas, of industry and agriculture, the combination of traditional handicraft and modern machinery industry. It avoided, for the most part, the bloody process like English Movement of Enclosures. Nantong led the country with cultural pattern and security system and so on. From a feudal town to a capital modern city, Tantong formed another model of Chinese city's modernization with its special way.