晚清江西商道与社会变动述略

五口通商改变了晚清时期对外贸易的格局，曾经辉煌了数百年的江西大庾岭商道，逐渐呈现颓势。九江开埠后，确立了以鄱阳湖为载体，以九江为集散中心的扇形商道网，成为近代九江城市发展和社会变动的一个历史契机。

Trade Route and Social Changes of Jiangxi Province in Late Qing

According to the Treaty of Nanjing, five coastal ports were opened up to the western Powers and it changed the pattern of China's external trade in late Qing. Thus the Dayuling Road in South Jiangxi province, with a prosprous commercial period of several hundred years, was on the decline. Soon after Jiujiang city was opened up, it became a regional collecting and distributing center for native and foreign goods, which offered an opportunity for unban development.