论唐五代小说中的胡商现象

唐五代小说中,胡商作为相当活跃的商人群体而存在,它的出现,构成了唐五代社会中一种独特的化现象,探讨胡商的来源地、来华原因、从事的职业、在中国的分布和胡汉融合的趋势以及唐五代人对待胡商的复杂心态等问题,有助于对唐五代小说中的胡商现象进行整体的把握,并由此探寻胡商现象所蕴涵的化内涵。

Toward Appearance of Merchants of the Non-Han Nationalities in the Novels of the Tang and the Five Dynasties

In the novels of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there exist merchants of the non-Han nationalities who were rather active as groups of businessmen, and their appearance represents a distinctive type of cultural phenomenon. It will help to grasp this phenomenon as a whole and then go on with searching for its cultural connotations, when explorations are made into these five problem: the original places where merchants of the non-Han nationalities come from; the causes for them coming to China; their occupations in China; their distribution and the trend of their mixing up with the Hans; and the complicated state of mind caused by merchants of die non-Han nationalities on the part of the people in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.