商业与近代中国城市化的启动(1840-1895)

城市化是近代工业影响带动的历史过程。甲午战争以前,中国国内近代工业已经产生并有所发展,但还不足以对城市的兴起与发展提供强力的动力支撑。近代中国的城市化最先是由资本主义性质的商业启动的。这种商业具有工业化的背景,它不是以中国国内近代工业为基础,而是依附于西方资本主义工业。这是中国对外开埠通商,纳入世界市场,参与国际分工的自然结果。

Trade and The Start of Urbanization in Modern China(1840-1895)

The urbanization is a historical process that influences and impels by the modern industry. Before Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Chinese domestic modern industry had already produced and has the development, but it was insufficient to provide the impetus for urbanized starting. At first, the modern China's urbanization is starts by the capitalist commercial trade. This kind of trade has the background of industrialization; it has not taken the Chinese domestic modern industry as the foundation, but has attached to the west capitalist industry. This is the result that China opened its ports to foreign for trade and participated in international division of labor after it entered the world market.