中外学者在研究近200年的俄清贸易时发现,贸易主动权始终掌握在清朝商人手中,而这些清朝商人清一色是山西商人。1985年,来自日本东北大学的学者寺田隆信,在山西大学举办了一场学术报告会。主题为“山西商人的研究”。他的研究,详细论证了明代山西巨商的崛起。那是一次极普通的学术交流,但在当时,对于中国的经济史学者却如醍醐灌顶。寺田的著作很快被翻译出版,海内外晋商研究蔚然兴起。 Chinese and foreign scholars have discovered during the nearly 200 years of trade in Russia and Qing that the trade initiative was always in the hands of Qing merchants, and these Qing businessmen were all Shanxi merchants. In 1985, Terada Takashi, a scholar from Tohoku University in Japan, held an academic conference at Shanxi University. The theme is “Study of Shanxi Businessmen”. His research detailedly demonstrated the rise of Shanxi’s giant merchants in the Ming Dynasty. It was a very ordinary academic exchange, but at the time, scholars of economic history in China were as educated. The works of Terada were soon translated and published, and the research of Shanxi merchants at home and abroad has risen.