Historical Study of Chinese City

近年来，中国城市史研究方兴未艾。中国因“四个现代化”而成立于1983年的中国古都研究院。在土木工程、建筑学、地理学等自然科学领域也发表了其他一些研究成果。此外，在以古都为中心的中国城市研究中，现在正在讨论其他省会城市的一些问题，使研究可以从首都和省会两个方面进行。现在，根据最近出土的一些文化文献，讨论史料较少的唐代以前的城市已经成为现实可能。在这种情况下，我们的研究机构对从先秦到现代的中国的城市进行了研究和分析。可以肯定的是，唐代以前，中国城市的主要特征是政治和军事特征，而中国城市的商业特征始于宋代。

Recently, historical study of Chinese city is flourishing. In China, because of "Four Modernizations", there founded in 1983 was Chinese Academy of Ancient Capital. Several other studies have also been published in the field of natural sciences such as civil-engineering, archistecture and geography.In addition to this, in the study of Chinese city whose central object used to be the ancient capitals, some problems of other provincial cities are now being discussed, enabling the study to be done from both sides, capital and provincial.And now, based on some recent excavated cultural articles, it has been becoming practically possible to discuss the cities of pre-Tangdynasty, which have comparatively few historical data.Under these circumstances, our research organization made a research and analysis of the cities from pre-Chin to modern China. As a conclusion, we made sure that, before Tangdynasty, chief charactaristic of Chinese city was political and military one, and that the commercial charactaristic of Chinese city had its beginning in Sung dynasty.