中国近代,台湾和大陆的经贸关系无论在贸易型态,还是在贸易范围,或是贸易商品,都有较大的变化,从而形成以转口贸易为主导的通商热潮。一传统贸易型态的改变 19世纪中叶第二次鸦片战争之后,大陆的广州、福州、厦门、宁波、上海、汕头和台湾的安平、淡水、鸡笼、打狗等处相继开港,英、美、德、日、荷等外商势力蜂涌而至,沿海地区开始逐步走向半殖民地化。外国商人在向中国输入大量鸦片、倾销工业品的同时,又廉价输出台湾的茶叶、樟脑、砂糖和大陆的丝绸、瓷器等商品,掠夺台湾和大陆的经济资源,从而极大地破坏了大 In modern China, the economic and trade relations between Taiwan and the Mainland have made great changes both in terms of trade patterns, trade scopes and trade commodities, resulting in a boom in trade led by entrepot trade. A Change of Traditional Trade Patterns After the Second Opium War in the mid-19th century, Anping, Danshui, chicken cages, and playing dogs in mainland China such as Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai, Shantou and Taiwan opened their ports in succession. The foreign forces in the United States, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands flocked to the area, and the coastal areas began to gradually become semi-colonialized. While importing large quantities of opium into China and dumping industrial products, foreign merchants exported Taiwan’s tea, camphor, sugar and Chinese silk, porcelain and other commodities cheaply, plundering the economic resources of Taiwan and the Mainland, thereby greatly destroying the large