近代城市体系的研究不能脱离对传统政区的深入探讨。晚清时期以上海为中心的通商口岸体系与以北京为代表的传统政区体系分庭抗礼,是近代中国“半殖民地半封建”社会的结构性写照。通商口岸体系形成后中国城市的发展变化,从总体上说,应是城市体系的“近代化”,而不是所谓的“城市化”。 The study of modern urban system can not be divorced from the traditional political district in-depth discussion. The treaty-based port system centered in Shanghai during the late Qing period was a good match for the traditional political system represented by Beijing and a structural portrayal of the “semi-colonial and semi-feudal” society in modern China. The development and changes of China’s cities after the establishment of the treaty port system have generally been the “modernization” of the urban system, not the so-called “urbanization.”