大稻埕，其興起可視為西力衝擊、對外貿易下的產物。隨著社會的變遷，現時大 稻埕之機能與意義，已不同於以往。今日之大稻埋，雖已難察昔日茶香與稻香之歲月，然自 清末即起的布業，仍佔有一席之地。究竟大稻埕之布業經濟的興起背景如何? 隨後又怎樣發 展？這期間歷經那些階段或轉折？又何以能存續至今？其中的影響因素為何，並且具有何等 意義呢？ 立基於上述的問題意識，本文首先指出大稻埕布業的區位分布與興起背景。其次，將其 長期發展歷程，從清末迄今，區分為古典依賴時期、殖民依賴時期、戰爭時期、戰後重整時 期、出口擴張時期等五個階段。最後，進一步探討其間的發展轉折及存續的影響因素，發現 諸如國際分工及世界經濟體系、對日本依賴的殖民經濟、第二次世界大戰與隨後的國共冷戰 、以及臺灣進行出口導向工業化過程中的散作體制等，均是重要且關鍵的影響因素，存在著 特殊的意義。

　　　　　Dueing to the opening ofTan-Sui harbour to international market in 1860, the Da-Dau-Cheng region in Taipei city gradually becomes the economic and cultural center in northern Taiwan. Since then this region has one of the most important collecting and distributing center of tea, groceries and cloth. This paper focuses on the following issues: What is the background for the rise of cloth industry in Da-Dau-Cheng region? How is the process of its development? And which factors have influenced transformation of the process? We try to answer the above questions and aims at offering theoretical insights to socio- economic history of Taiwan by the ecological approach and the world economy point of view. To direct our inquiry, we divide our discussion about development of cloth industry in Da-Dau-Cheng region into three parts. First, we investigate the ecological location and the rising background of it. Second, we divide its developmental process from 1860s to 1980s into five stages : classical dependence period (1860-1894), colonial dependence period (1895-1940), World War II period (1937-1945), recovering period (1946-1964), and industrializing period (1965-1980). Lastly, we further analyze the factors, which influence transformations of this process, like that international division of labor and world economy, the colonial economy ruled by Japanese imperialism, World War II and cold War between communist China and free China, and export-orientation insustrializing policy and its byproduct putting-out system.