“寓公”在中国本是一个十分古老的词汇,最初专指在公元前8-5世纪的春秋时期,失去土地而寄居他国的诸侯。到公元7世纪的唐代以后,泛指寄居他乡、又有官吏身份的人。然而在近代中国,“寓公”却成了中国社会一个十分特殊的阶层;“寓公”一词的内涵和外延也都发生了极大的变化。究其原因,应当说,与20世纪初期之后中国国体的迅速变 In the early days of the 8th and 5th centuries BC in the Spring and Autumn Period, lords of other countries who lost their land and lived in other countries. After the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century AD, it refers to people who live in their hometowns and have official identities. However, in modern China, “public ” has become a very special class of Chinese society; “connotation ” the connotation and denotation have also undergone tremendous changes. The reason, we should say, with the rapid change of the Chinese state after the early 20th century