The Statistical Study on Farm Rent of Jiangnan in Modern China

本研究项目的目的在于了解江南地区农地地租的实际状况及其变化。为了完成这个研究项目，我尽可能多地收集了关于农场租金的手稿文件（足展书、鱼鳞登记簿和农场租金合同）和印刷文件（报纸、杂志和农村实际情况研究报告），并对这些文件进行了比较。在这个项目期间，我参观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、东洋文库、台湾近代史研究所、美国哈佛大学扬京图书馆、中国苏州档案馆、苏州博物馆。我从这些访问中找到了很多有趣的文件。我写了一篇关于燕京图书馆文献的论文作为这个研究项目的报告。在本文中，我表示扬京图书馆的文献是1960年从日本购买的，因此，这些文献与日本研究机构持有的文献一样，都带有祖展的名称。例如，在一桥大学和九州大学的文献中发现的“彭眉书展”、“潘通书展”和“武夷山堂”中就可以看到祖展的名称。我觉得分析每一份文件很有必要，但相互比较更重要。我想把这个研究项目的成果发表在今年的学术刊物上。

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.