长期以来，创新研究将东亚模式和美、德的经验割裂开来，认为东亚国家即便取得了经济奇迹，也是通过斩断同前工业化时期的联系实现的。然而日本制糖业自明治维新到第一次世界大战前这五十年间的飞速发展，却鲜明地提出了反例：日本自1726年首次从中国引进手工甘蔗制糖技术，直至明治初期还大量依赖于对中国糖的进口；但到了十九世纪末，就一举逆转了局面，开始向中国出口机器生产的精制糖；二十世纪的第一个十年，更是在中国的“洋糖”市场上实现了同传统霸主英属香港糖的抗衡。因此本文的研究问题是日本近代制糖业是如何实现飞速发展的。在批判地回顾日糖技术间断发展论、殖民地台湾糖业发展论和发展型政府造就日糖成功说等既有研究的基础上，本研究通过引入技术与社会互构的视角，综合利用日文报刊、公司志、制糖技术文献等一手史料，归纳出日本近代制糖业发展的技术与组织脚本，并尝试建构出互构的机制性框架。具体而言，日本近代制糖业技术脚本的主要特征是基于集体发明（Collective Invention）的渐进式改良；而组织脚本的核心则体现为政府和企业之间，以及企业和企业之间灵活的合作网络。两者缺一不可，相辅相成，共同奠定了日本近代制糖业飞速发展的基础。该互构模型还进一步被用于解释西方发达国家在中国兴办近代糖厂，以及中国近代民族工业转型失败的原因。日本近代制糖业的发展历程表明，东亚国家的发展未必一定意味着同过去的间断，相反同西方国家一样也具有连续发展的可能性。事实上，日本近代制糖业中的很多技术和组织模式都延续自幕府时代；这些脚本后来又进一步延续到二战后代表着“日本奇迹”的钢铁、化工、汽车等传统意义上的现代化工业当中。事实上真正构成东西方差别的，在于集体发明和公私合作的具体实现机制方面。特备是根植于东亚社会的特殊构成形式，人际网络在两个脚本的建构中都发挥了核心的积极作用。 虽然制糖业是典型的民用工业，但日本资本主义工业化和国民经济近代化基础是由官营军事工业发展起来的。特别是很多组织脚本的“经验”的达成，系以牺牲殖民地人民的利益为代价，对此仍需始终明确并且时刻警醒。
The development of East Asia is always explained as a different mode than the industrialization and modernization of Germany or US for long by the innovation studies, which deeply implies that the so-called “East Asia Miracle” must be a kind of discontinuity with the pre-industrial stage. The economic and technological performance that Japanese sugar industry has achieve from the Meiji Restoration to the pre-WWI period provides an excellent counter example. The question of this study is how did modern Japanese sugar industry achieve such a success that rapidly? Thus it is argued, existing research, such as the technological stagnation theory, the colonial development theory and the developmental state argument, all fail to cover the “whole picture” if the discontinuity assumption was not broke. This study use the explanatory framework of reciprocal-structuration to solve the question. After analyzing Japanese news release, the record of proceedings, as well as the original books about sugar manufacturing technology in Japanese and other historical materials, the technological and institutional scripts are found, which are the collective invention mechanism based on personal network with the reformism on industrialized technology and the public-private partnership based on social network including academic clique, business alliance and guild. These two parts become the foundation for the advance of modern Japanese sugar industry. This framework can also explain why Chinese traditional sugar manufactures and the joint-venture couldn’t achieve this success.The development of modern Japanese sugar industry shows the institutional and technological continuity that is similar to the west. The development patterns of modern Japanese sugar industry on both technological and institutional sides last from Edo period, in turn also play a fundamental role in blooming the more modernized industries like steel-making, chemical engineer and automobile manufacture which is definitely the representatives of “East Asia Miracle” after WWII. However, the action of collective invention and public-private partnership are different from the western mode. The crucial effect of social network rooted in East Asia society plays a key role in both technological and institutional scripts.In the meantime, although sugar manufacture is a typical civil industry, the foundation for Japanese capitalist industrialization and economic modernization is based on the development of government-operated military industry. Especially lots of the experience for the institutional script cost colonies huge sacrifice, which is cannot be ignored. Further specific discussion on this issue will be necessary.
