杨联陞先生曾言,从经济角度来看帝制中国的公共工程,中国史的研究者不约而同地都期待这样的研究能有助于了解中国的国家与社会的本质。他的研究从材料、劳力、资金来源和经济思想等方面,考察了中国古代的公共工程。他希望自己的研究能够激发更多的人利用中文文献,来重建一个相当清楚的公共财政的图像,而且也能重建一些民众生活史的外貌和细节。重建帝制中国公共 Mr. Yang Lian-sheng once said that from an economic point of view, imperial China’s public works, researchers in Chinese history invariably expect such a study can help understand the nature of China’s state and society. His research examines the ancient public works in China from the aspects of materials, labor, sources of funds and economic thinking. He hopes his research will inspire more people to use Chinese literature to rebuild a fairly clear picture of public finances and to reconstruct the appearance and details of some people’s life history. Reconstruction of imperial China public