The Statistical Study on Farm Rent of Jiangnan in Modern China

本课题的研究目的是为了弄清江南地区地租的实际状况及其变化。为了完成这一研究课题，我收集了尽可能多的关于地租的手稿文献（祖占书、鱼鳞簿、地租契约）和印刷品文献（报纸、杂志、农村实际情况研究报告），并对这些文献进行了比较。在这个项目期间，我访问了以下大学和研究机构：东京大学、京都大学、九州大学、筑波大学和东洋文库，台湾的近代史研究所，美国的哈佛大学的燕京图书馆，中国苏州档案馆和苏州博物馆。我从这些访问中找到了很多有趣的文件。我写了一篇关于扬金图书馆文献的论文作为这个研究项目的报告。本文认为，燕京图书馆的文献是1960年从日本购买的，因此，其中所含的祖占文献与日本研究机构所藏的祖占文献相同。例如，在一桥大学和九州大学的文献中发现的“彭梅书展”、“潘通书展“和“武夷山堂“中，都可以看到祖展的名称。我觉得分析每一份文件是非常必要的，但相互比较更重要。我想在今年的学术刊物上发表这个研究项目的成果。

The aim of this research project is to get a clear view of the actual conditions and change of farm rent in Jiangnan. To achieve this research project, I collected manuscript documents on farm rent (books of zuzhan, fish scale registers and contracts of farm rent) and printed documents (newspapers, magazines and reports of research on rural actual condition) as many as possible, and compare those documents. In this project term, I visited the following universities and research institutions ; Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, Tsukuba University and Toyo Bunko, The Institution of Modern History in Taiwan, Yanking Library of Harvard University in U.S., Suzhou Archives and Suzhou Museum in China. I was able to find a lot of interesting documents from those visits. I wrote a paper about the documents of Yanking Library as a report for this research project. In this paper, I expressed that the documents of Yanking Library was bought in 1960 from Japan, and therefore, those contained the documents which carry the name of zuzhan same as those documents held in Japanese research institutions. For example, the names of zuzhan can be seen in "Pengmeishuzhan", "Pantongshuzhan " and "Wuyishantang, " which were found among the documents of Hitotsubashi University and Kyushu University. I feel that analyzing each document is very necessary, but comparing each other is more important. I'd like to publish the effort of this research project in an academic publication this year.