Abstract: Combining documentary research and primary fieldwork, this article focuses on the development of irrigation in Jiyuan and He’nei counties in northern Henan Province during the Ming and Qing dynasties1 The article addresses the institutional transformation and social changes that arose from the interactions between county governments and local dignitaries, the effects on canal technology, and the benefits of irrigation and agricultural development that the reformation of the water -control system brought about during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries1 Suggesting a dynamic examination of the extension of regional spatial relations, the author forsakes structural analysis models such as the water-control community argument, and p refers a broader yardstick to measure the social history of water resources in North Chinal.

摘要： 该文结合文献和初步的实地考察,围绕明清时期济源和河内两县的水利开发,讨论县际行政、地方权势及其二者的相互联系,如何对不同时期的引水技术、灌溉利益、农田开发等方面产生影响,从而揭示16、17世纪豫北灌溉水利发展史中的制度转换和社会变迁。笔者认为,“水利共同体”的结构分析模式限制了水利社会史研究的时空尺度,主张通过对地域联系拓展过程的动态考察,开阔华北水资源和社会组织的研究思路。