学術雑誌論文

本学関連学会

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大阪大学経済学. 2013, 63(1), p. 31-50

日本語

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2013-06

The purpose of this article is to analyze the development of the rural cotton textile industry in China since the Ming dynasty under the perspectives of proto-industrialization. About the Chinese rural cotton textile industry, the previous studies have made remarkable advances, but also remained a mystery that the rural cotton textile industry had the tenacious resistance to move into modern cotton industry. Proto-industrialization theory presents three new valuable analytical perspectives that the theory on traditional rural industry has never stressed: firstly the location in rural areas, secondly the production for the distant markets, and thirdly the divorce between the zone specializing in cotton textile industry and its adjacent zone devoting itself to commercial agriculture. The results of this article will show that in China the similar features to the first and second points on the Western experiences are found. But, as for the third point, China was very different from the European countries., because in China it was difficult to distinguish the zone of the cotton textile industry from that of the commercial agriculture within an area. The Chinese rural cotton textile industry was based not on the intra-regional division of labors such as in Europe, but on the intra-local division of labors, especially sustained by the domestic partnership. However, this difference strongly prescribed the developmental trends of the Chinese traditional cotton industry, and reflected that the Chinese peasantsʼ eagerness for lands and their special logic about business. By and large, the peasants produced textiles for the self-sufficiency of their households. Therefore, the Chinese rural cotton textile industry, which the peasants engaged in as a side business, had been kept over six centuries after the Ming Dynasty. Finally, this article presents a hypothesis about the competition among the districts producing homespun cloth, and argues it was another task on the historical development of Chinese rural cotton textile industry.

10.18910/57008

57008

明代以降の中国農村における在来綿織物業の展開 : プロト工業化論に基づく試論

庄, 紅娟

大阪大学経済学会

日本語

2013-06

大阪大学経済学

63

1

31

50

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/57008

10.18910/57008

https://doi.org/10.18910/57008