与研究其他国家城市的学者一样,城市空间也一直是中国城市史学家研究的一个热门主题。本文关注的也是城市空间问题,研究对象是明清时期中国首都北京的地理与社会空间,尤其集中在16世纪到18世纪中期。我力图向人们证明,中国城市社会空间转变的过程并非要完全留待近代才发生。事实上,尽管北京的地理空间相对而言没有发生什么变化,但是社会空间已经出现了引人注目的转变。这种转变主要表现在北京的两个截然不同的居住中心和社会活动中心的出现—— As with scholars who study cities in other countries, urban space has also been a hot topic of study by Chinese urban historians. This article also focuses on the issue of urban space. The object of study is the geographical and social space of Beijing, the capital of China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with particular emphasis on the period from the 16th century to the mid-18th century. I tried to prove to people that the process of changing the urban social space in China is not completely left to modernity. In fact, despite the relative changes in geographical space in Beijing, no noticeable changes have taken place in the social space. This shift is mainly manifested in the emergence of two distinct centers of living and social centers in Beijing -