侨批史研究与学科构想

---侨汇的经济因素、社会因素、文化因素

滨下武志^*

 (中山大学，广东，广州，510000)

摘要：香港和新加坡作为近代南洋与华南区域之间的侨批中转据点，它们的形成推动了华侨与东南亚的连接。本文以此为例，对海外华人侨批、侨汇网络的形成进行描述，解释了移民及其侨汇如何加强了华南与东南亚的联系，以及批局、信局和清末邮政业等在金融活动如何利用海外华人侨汇的网络。同时，本文认为，侨批包含了三层的历史作用，分别是：维持了华侨与侨乡的往来；促进了语言、文化传统等包括在内地方文化跨区域的来往；推动了跨区域商业、金融网络的形成。

关键词：侨批史研究  侨汇  经济因素  社会因素  文化因素

The Overseas Remittances Studies and Subject compose：

The Economic/ Social/ Cultural factors of Overseas Remittance

Takeshi Hamashita

（Sun Yat-sen University，China）

Abstract： As the transit of remittances between South China and Southeast Asia，Hong Kong and Singapore

promoted the connection between the Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asia. In this paper，basing on the example

of Hong Kong and Singapore as the transit of overseas remittances，it represented the formation of the Overseas

Remittances networks，explained how the immigrants and overseas remittances enhance the connection between 

South China and Southeast Asia，and explained how the bureau of remittances and post office take advantages of 

the network of overseas remittances in their financial work. At the same time，it believes that the overseas

remittances raised three major influences on history：the first influence is to maintain the connection between the overseas Chinese and their hometowns，the second one is to promote the cross-region communication on language and culture and tradition，and the last influence is for the foundation of multiregional financial and commercial networks.

Keywords：The Overseas Remittances Studies   Overseas Remittances   Economic factor  Social factor  Cultural factor