전통중국의 설탕-면화교역과 근대세계체제

Abstract

The Sugar-Cotton trade between south China region and Yangtze delta region had received foreigner’s attention from beginning open port. And they wanted to penetrate this system literally impregnable against all the assaults of foreign competition as soon as possible. The situation what foreigner’s goods effectively penetrated into a well-ordered Chinese trade system signifies that it act as a big variable at the traditional Chinese market order, that is to say that traditional Chinese market have started being incorporated at modern world system. On the other hands, that traditional Chinese market have started being incorporated at modern world system means what the specialized Chinese trade system have collapsed. In other words, It is a significant sign of entering into modern world system that typical trade system such as the sugar-cotton trade in Ming-Qing period, had collapsed.BR Nevertheless the sugar-cotton trade in Ming-Qing period occupies significant location in the history of Chinese social economy, researchers did not much conducted a study on it. Because there is not enough historical records about it and they think that sugar is less important than cotton goods and south China region is less important than Yangtze delta region. Thus the great part of researches have narrated it as one part of Yangtze delta region’s social economic history about cotton goods trade between south China region and Yangtze delta region. Consequently in this article, I tried to consider sugar-cotton trade with different point of view, and Through it, I narrated relations between Traditional Chinese market and modern world system.