民國時期葡籍華商在廣州房地產投資的時空分佈特徵

In modern times, the Portuguese Chinese businessmen who travelled between Guangdong and Macao, although most of them called themselves “Atlantic natives” or “Atlantic businessmen”, actually had the nature of foreign Chinese and belonged to a special group of overseas Chinese. We can see that during the Republic of China, Portuguese Chinese businessmen had commercial operations in many places in Guangdong. Still, their investment focus was primarily in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, where real estate investment accounted for a large proportion. Its characteristics were primarily reflected in three aspects: in terms of the types of real estate investment, most of the Portuguese Chinese businessmen were small and medium-sized businessmen. They mainly invested in commercial real estate by renting houses with personal investment, and the proportion of self-occupancy and combined commercial and residential real estate investment was relatively small. In terms of the time distribution of real estate investment, it was mainly concentrated in the 1910s and 1920s. When compared to general overseas Chinese real estate investment primarily concentrated in the 1920s and 1930s, the common point is that they concentrated in the 1920s, but Portuguese Chinese businessmen also invested relatively more in the first decade and relatively less in the 1930s. In terms of spatial distribution of real estate investment, Portuguese Chinese businessmen mainly invest in commercial real estate in Xiguan, Henan and Central districts of Guagnzhou, while the distribution of commercial and residential combined real estate was mainly in the western district and central District. As for self-reside real estate, it is more dispersed, distributed in the east, west and south districts, but mainly concentrated in the eastern District. As a part of overseas Chinese, during the Republic of China, Portuguese Chinese real estate investment in Guangzhou, not only limited to residential, but also hotels, foreign firms, and department stores, and actively participated in arcade shop construction, so that the increase of urban building types, to some extent, drive the modern transformation of Guangzhou city and construction, as well as the reconstruction of modern Guangzhou urban space.