本文通过对清末至民国时期输入西藏的边茶与印茶的比较分析展示帝国内部贸易体系与现代世界体系遭遇的个案。边茶与印茶之争其实质是现代世界体系的大宗商品贸易挑战着帝国内部维系边疆封建等级形态的奢侈品贸易。边茶作为奢侈品再生产了西藏社会的等级,而印茶作为现代世界体系生产的大宗商品将社会大众作为其目标群体,力图打破等级的区隔。 This article shows the cases encountered by the Imperial Internal Trade System and the Modern World System through the comparative analysis of the border tea and Indian tea input into Tibet during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The dispute between border tea and printing and tea is essentially that the commodity trade in the modern world system challenges the luxury trade within the empire that maintains the level of frontier feudal hierarchy. While tea as a luxury reproduces the rank of Tibetan society, Indian tea, as a commodity produced by the modern world system, places the general public as its target group in an attempt to break the distinction between grades.