11月26日云里国际学术前沿讲座系列#1：张萌｜从经济史与环境史看清代的木材贸易与林业
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这是新开设的“云里国际学术前沿讲座系列”首个讲座，将于2021年11月26日美东时间早上9点（北京时间晚上10点）开始，报告人为美国范德堡大学(Vanderbilt University)历史系的张萌教授，分享她今年刚出版的英文新专著Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press, 2021) 。评议人为上海交通大学历史系邱澎生教授和耶鲁大学法学院张泰苏教授。讲座信息详见推文内容，欢迎感兴趣的学者读者注册参加。
题目：从经济史与环境史看清代的木材贸易与林业
Timber and Forestry in Qing China: From the Dual Perspectives of Economic and Environmental History
讲座信息
讲座时间｜Time
11月26日美东时间早上9点-11点，北京时间11月26日晚上10-12点。
主讲人｜Speaker
张萌，范德堡大学历史系助理教授
评议人｜Commentators
邱澎生，上海交通大学特聘教授
张泰苏，耶鲁大学法学院教授，历史系兼任教授，北京大学法学院全球教席成员
讲座题目｜Topic
从经济史与环境史看清代的木材贸易与林业
Timber and Forestry in Qing China: From the Dual Perspectives of Economic and Environmental History
讲座摘要｜Abstract
清代中国人口滋生、市场化长足发展，对木材的需求急剧增长。环境史的叙述一般强调这一时期过度的森林砍伐及其造成的生态破坏。实际情况其实更加复杂：在自然林被砍伐以后，新的经济制度推动了人工再生林的发展。本书追踪了连接长江下游经济中心与西南边疆木材供应的贸易渠道，并详述地方社会如何通过创新产权制度和经济激励推动对林业的长期投入。通过档案材料对商业活动的还原，本书还考察了正式与非正式制度之间如何互动合作、保护契约执行，从而有益于维持经济利益与环境管理之间的平衡。环境与市场的可持续性是本书的核心问题：如何保证长期可靠的木材供应？如何维持跨越极长距离的商业网络？这项研究立足中国经济史与环境史，清代案例的独特性有效地扩充了世界史中对资源管理、近代早期的商业化、及可持续发展等问题的理解。
In the Qing period, China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation and ecological degradation. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Timber and Forestry in Qing Chinatraces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. It documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, the book considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.
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主讲人及评议人简介
Meng Zhang
张萌
张萌现任范德堡大学(Vanderbilt University)历史系助理教授，2010年毕业于北京大学光华管理学院金融系，2017年获加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学博士。研究兴趣聚焦于明清时期的经济社会与环境变迁以及全球资本主义兴起过程中的跨国互动。著有Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (华盛顿大学出版社2021年出版)，上海人民出版社出版将推出中译本。
Meng Zhang is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 2017 and B.A. in Economics from Peking University in 2010. She is particularly interested in the economic and environmental transformations in late imperial China and transnational dynamics in the rise of global capitalism. Her first book, Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press, 2021), reveals the complex reality of timber trade and resource management during the flurry of commercial development in Qing China.
Pengsheng Qiu
邱澎生
1995年6月台湾大学历史学博士，1996年任职中研院史语所助理研究员，2004年升副研究员，2012至2018年任香港中文大学历史系教授, 之后担任上海交通大学特聘教授。主要由制度经济史与经济人类学相关议题出发，分析明清中国市场演化与商业法律等相关议题，探究明清中国市场演化轨迹，并辩论明清商业法律也曾是影响当时中国经济发展的重要因素。希望在挑战学界习见各类「西方中心论」的同时，能够更细致地理解近代中国历史的变迁轨迹。个人主页为：https://sjtu.academia.edu/PengshengChiu
Professor Chiu received his doctoral degree (June 1995) from the Department of History of National Taiwan University. He was an Assistant Research Fellow (1996–2004) and an Associate Research Fellow (2004–2014) of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. From 2012 to 2018 he was Professor of the Department of History, Chinese University Hong Kong, and henceforth became as Distinguished Professor in Shanghai Jiao-Tong University. Inspired primarily by institutional economic history and economic anthropology, his research analyzes the market evolution, the commercial law, and their related topics in Ming-Qing China (1368-1911). It investigates the evolutionary trajectory of the market in Ming-Qing China and argues that commercial law in this period was an important factor in the development of the Chinese economy. It aims to challenge various sorts of “Western-centrism” that prevail in academic circles while at the same time helping us to understand in more nuanced and detailed fashion the course of modern Chinese history. His webpage may be found at https://sjtu.academia.edu/PengshengChiu.
Taisu Zhang
张泰苏
耶鲁大学学士、法律博士、历史学博士。现任耶鲁大学法学院教授(tenured)，耶鲁大学历史系兼任教授，北京大学法学院全球教席成员。2018-2019年曾任中国法律与历史国际学会会长。主要研究方向为比较法律与经济史、产权理论与中国司法系统。专著《儒家的法律与经济：前工业化时期中英家族与产权制度比较》(The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England），剑桥大学出版社2017年出版)荣获美国社会科学历史学会颁发的会长奖以及麦克米伦国际与地区研究中心颁发的盖迪斯-史密斯图书奖。他的第二本书《清代财政的意识形态基础》（The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation）将于2022年由剑桥出版社出版。
Taisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history, private law theory, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. His first book, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England, was published by Cambridge University Press, and received the 2018 Presidents Award from the Social Science History Association and the 2018 Gaddis Smith Book Prize from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. This is the first entry in a planned trilogy of books on the institutional and cultural origins of early modern economic divergence. The second entry, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation, will be published by Cambridge University Press in late 2022. In addition, Zhang has published articles, essays, and book chapters on a wide array of topics, winning awards from several academic organizations, and is a regular commentator on Chinese law, society, and politics in media outlets.
Zhang is a Global Faculty member at Peking University Law School, and co-editor of the Studies in Legal History book series of the American Society for Legal History. He has also taught at the Duke University School of Law, the University of Hong Kong, Brown University, and the Tsinghua University School of Law. He holds a secondary appointment at Yale as Professor of History.
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