康熙55（1716）年，福建學者陳夢林來臺纂修方志，於臺灣北部提出 增設縣份的構想，普遍被視為18 世紀臺灣行政區變革的開端。由開發史角 度觀之，增設縣份似是理所當然的結果，但這簡化了地方治理中對於經世理 想與政治現實的權衡。本文則從歷任官員、知識份子等議論參與者的職位與 人際網絡切入，指出康熙23（1684）年時清朝官僚早已注意到臺灣行政區 劃的不合時宜，並發展出以駐軍為主軸的政策論述。康熙50 年代，新任地 方官員轉向主張縮減行政區規模，而陳夢林的設縣說則是此一地方治理課題 脈絡下的第三種方案。

In 1716, Chen Meng-Ling（陳夢林）, a famous Fujian scholar, proposed the establishment of a new county in the northern Taiwan when he was hired to compile the gazette of Chu Luo County（諸羅縣）. Owning to this matter, Chen’s approach is regarded as the beginning of administrative divisions’ reforming in the early eighteenth-century Taiwan. From the perspective of development history, the addition of counties seems to be a natural result, but the struggle between ideal statecraft and political reality involved in local governance was simplified under the specific context. This article takes a different view since the Taiwan local officials had already noticed the deficiencies of administrative divisions in 1684, and thus developed a policy discourse that mainly focused on the garrisons. In the 1710s, the new local officials turned to consider decreasing the size of administrative divisions. On the other hand, Chen's proposal of establishing new counties became the third resolution under this context of local governance.

遷界；經世；行政區；社群網絡；清治臺灣史 投

Great Clarence；Ordering The World；Administrative Divisions；Social Network；Taiwan History During The Qing Dynasty