珠海唐家村是华南沿海的一个村落，明代至民国经历了从传统乡村发展成著名侨乡的社会变迁过程，其社会结构也进行了调整。明代前期，唐、梁、盛、程等姓陆续从外地迁居珠海唐家，在此形成聚落。随着外县移民的来迁、乡村社会的士绅化过程，唐家逐渐出现了祠堂、庙宇等“礼仪标识”，唐家人也日益编织起一个以宗族组织和神庙系统为核心的社会结构。清康熙年间开放海禁之后，因地利之便，唐家已经有人赴澳门、香港和东南亚等地经商。1840年后，随着国门的开放，越来越多唐家人出国打工、留学、经商并移居海外，唐家逐渐具有了“侨乡”的特质。与此同时，唐家的政治地位、经济实力、文化教育、乡村风貌、百姓的日常生活都发生了巨大变化，唐家的人群势力、空间结构等也随之改变。然而，宗族和庙宇仍是唐家最为重要的社会结构，因为这一结构仍然能够满足人们的需求。本文的研究揭示了一个位于珠江三角洲地区的村庄的发展史，其社会的“结构过程”和结构调适是考察重点。由于正是社会中的一个个有自我思想的成员通过有目的的行动，编织出关系和意义的网络，所以在对地域社会结构的研究中，不能忽略个体的需求和能动性，这样才能理解他们行动的逻辑，才能更好地把握结构的形成和转变过程。

Tangjia Village in Zhuhai, on the coast of southern China, underwent a process of social change from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China as it developed from a traditional village into a famous expatriate township, and its social structure was adjusted. In the early Ming Dynasty, the families of Tang, Liang, Sheng and Cheng moved one after another from outside the area to Tangjia Village in Zhuhai, where they formed a colony. With the arrival of immigrants from other places and the gentrification of rural society, "ceremonial signs" such as ancestral halls and temples gradually appeared in the Tangjia Village, and people there increasingly wove a social structure centred on the clan organisation and the temple system. After the cancellation of the sea ban during the reign of Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, some members of the Tangjia Village had already gone to Macao, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to do business because of the convenient location. After 1840, with the opening of China, more and more members of the Tangjia Village went abroad to work, study, do business and emigrate to other countries, and the Tangjia Village gradually acquired the characteristics of an 'expatriate township'. At the same time, the Tangjia Village's political status, economic power, culture and education, the appearance of the countryside and the daily life of the people all changed greatly, as did the power comparison of the Tangjia Village and its spatial structure. However, the clan and the temple remained the most important social structure of the Tangjia Village, as this structure was still able to meet the needs of the people. This study shows the history of the development of a village in the Pearl River Delta region, where the 'structuring' and structural adaptations of society are the focus of study. Since it is the self-minded members of a society that weave a network of relationships and meanings through purposeful action, the needs and dynamic roles of individuals cannot be ignored in the study of the social structure of the region in order to understand the logic of their actions and to better grasp the process of structure formation and transformation.