本文通过揭示赈灾这样的特殊事件及与“分厂”相关连的地方惯习的变化 ,勾勒出有清至民初嘉定、宝山“分厂”制度的确立和衍化过程 ,在此基础上探讨了“厂董”职能的转化以及传统的乡镇管理模式与清末民初地方自治之间的关系 ,指出在清初救荒活动中划分的以市镇为核心的“厂”的管辖区 ,后来逐渐演变成事实上的地方行政区划。至清末民初 ,尽管“厂域”界限纷争不清 ,但该地的地方自治区域还是完全按照原来的“厂域”面积拟定的。 By revealing the special events such as disaster relief and the changes of local customs related to “branch factories”, this article sketches the establishment and evolution of the system of “branch factories” in Jiading and Baoshan during the Qing dynasty and on the basis of this The transformation of the “factory director” function and the relationship between the traditional township administration mode and local autonomy in late Qing and early Republican China pointed out that the jurisdiction of “factory” with the town as the core, which was divided in the rescue work in early Qing dynasty, gradually evolved into De facto local administrative divisions. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, although the confines of the “factory domain” were unclear, the local autonomous region of the place was still completely formulated according to the original “factory domain”.