中国博彩发展的历史阶段性及其特征

中国博彩的产生和发展,是社会经济发展到一定历史阶段的产物。从娱乐性游戏发展为娱乐性博彩活动,再发展为商业性博彩,是一个历史过程。从经济学的观点看,这个历史过程可以划分为若干个历史发展阶段,即竞技、斗智娱乐性游戏,自娱-互娱性博彩,个别的、简单的商业性博彩,扩大的、复杂的商业性博彩和网络博彩发展阶段。在不同的历史发展阶段,中国博彩均表现出不同的特征,而且赌场、赛马、彩票等不同的博彩业态也会分别呈现出其特有的形式。这样,就构成了中国博彩发展历史阶段性的若干特征。

The Historical Stages and Characteristics of the Chinese Gambling Development

The emergence and changing nature of Chinese gaming is one product of socio-economic development.From games played for entertainment,to entertaining gambling activities,and hence commercial gambling,it has been a historical process.This process can be divided into a number of historical development stages from the viewpoint of economics;that is,from competitive games and entertaining games entailing a contest of wits,to small group entertain- ment gambling and individual and simple commercial gambling,to large commercial gambling complexes and finally Internet gambling.During these different historical phases of develop- ment,Chinese gambling has demonstrated different characteristics,and different gambling sectors such as casinos,horse racing and lotteries illustrate their unique forms,constituting the different characteristics of Chinese gambling during these different historical stages.