A Study of Formative Process of Chinese Ancient City Society

本文根据笔者通过城市遗址数据库、田野调查和对中国学者的访谈所编制的《二里头、殷州城市遗址名录》，对二里头文化时期至殷周时期的城市社会进行了分析，考察了城市社会的形成过程。因此，这一时期的城市基本上已经被证明是有围墙的城市。而且，到了二里头文化时期，城市已经是一个种族和文化复杂的社会。殷周时期的城市社会也是一个由少数外来尺子人主导前朝统治阶级和众多原住民的复杂社会，但西周时期城市人的同化逐渐推进，春秋战国时期形成了城市共同体。

Based on "The Erlitou and Yin Zhou city ruins list" that I made by the database of the city ruins, field work, and interview to Chinese researchers, I analyzed the city society from the Erlitou culture period to the Yin Zhou period, and examined the formative process of the city society. As a result, the cities of this time are proved to have basically been walled cities. And, by the Erlitou culture period, cities had already been ethnically and culturally complex societies. The city society of the Yin Zhou period was also a complex society in which a few rulers from outside dominated the ruling class of the former dynasty and many indigenous people, but the assimilation of the city people gradually advance in the West Zhou period, and consequently, city community was established in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.