History Project

晚明松江地區棉紡織業研究項目說明

本研究項目研究對象是晚明時代 (1550-1644 年 ) 隸屬南直隸的松江府三縣（華亭縣、上海縣、青浦縣）及蘇州府的嘉定縣，統稱松江地區。此地區乃十六至十七世紀長江三角洲的棉紡織業生產中心。

本項目有三個目的：

建立一套有關時空的微觀歷史地理信息系統資料庫；
以地理信息系統重新展示及詮釋該地區棉紡織業的經濟表現；
探討晚明松江府棉業發展的制度因素。

總括來說，這個研究項目把社會經濟歷史、地區歷史、地理信息系統、區域分析及新制度經濟學等方法結合起來，嘗試為對過往及現在中國經濟發展的研究，帶來新的研究策略及新的理解。

本網址「晚明松江地區歷史地理信息系統數據庫 」提供這個研究項目的歷史地理信息系統數據庫方面的研究成果，供研究者參考和使用。

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本項目由香港特區政府研究資助局劃定撥款資助完成 ( 項目編號： CUHK4020/02H)

2005/5/1

Project on Cotton Textile Industry in Songjiangfu Region during the Late Ming Period - A Brief Description

It is a Chinese Language database. English version only for Introduction.

This project deals with the region of Ming Songjiangfu and Ming Jiading county in the Lower Yangzi delta, roughly equivalent to the modern Shanghai Municipality, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . This region was the major cotton textile production area of late imperial China.

There are three major objectives for this project:

To construct a micro database of Historical Geographic Information System (GIS) on the spatial structure of this industry;
To reinterpret the economic performance of this cotton economy in the light of based on the newly constructed GIS database.
To explore the institutional matrix of the cotton industry in the late Ming Songjiangfu;

In sum, this is a multidisciplinary study combining socioeconomic history, local history, GIS, regional analysis, and new institutional economics with a view to generating new understanding of and research strategies towards China’s economic development past and present.

The current website of “Historical GIS Database on the Songjiang Region in late Ming China” presents the GIS database outcome of this project.

The data of this GIS Database can be downloaded only for individual research purpose. If used for academic or educational non-profit-making publications, it must be clearly acknowledged. Without prior permission, it shall not be used for any commercial or profit-making purpose.

The work in this website was supported by a grant from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. CUHK 4020/02H)

May 1, 2005