中文摘要：

文化和思想的专制统治在中国乃至世界历史上都是一种常见的专制统治手段。文字狱作为其典型产物，具有重大的学术研究价值。研究选取具有代表意义的清代顺治、康熙、雍正、乾隆时期（1644—1795年）发生的文字狱作为分析样本，力图从区域差异的角度进行探讨。研究发现区域人文、经济、政治等因素对文字狱的地域分异影响具有决定性作用，人文环境决定了文人群体必然直接影响到文字狱的分布，而经济环境则通过影响教育水平和社会环境从而间接影响了文字狱的分布，政治事件、统治者性格、统治方式、政治地位等政治因素对文字狱的地域分异的影响则充满了偶然性。随着时间的推移文字狱分布呈现出由“离散型”分布向集中度较高的“背弓型”分布演变的规律，这是人文、经济、政治等历史地理要素对文字狱地域分异综合影响的反映。研究弥补了历史学、社会学等其它学科研究方法的局限性，试图从地理学的视角探索中国古代文化专制的规律，不仅具有历史文化地理方面填补空白的价值，同时对现今自由文化之发展也具有警示意义。

英文摘要：

Despotic government on culture and ideological matters was shared among all types of dictatorships around the world. As one typical product of this philosophy of governance, Literary Inquisition deserves special attention within cultural geography scholarship. Thi： research tries to approach the issue of Literary Inquisition from the perspective of regional differentiation, with solid empirical evidence from Shun-Kang-Yong-Qian period of the Qing Dynasty. The research finds that regional cultural backgrounds, local economic conditions and politics were the key determinants that gave rise to the regional differentiation of Literary Inquisition cases, specifically, these determinants included the concentration of literati, educational status ＇of population, social environment, political events, personalities of the governors, ways of governing and political status. Generally, this study tried to cast light on the cuhural autocratic governing in ancient China from the geographic perspective which was largely ignored by historians and sociologists. It is an valuable endeavor for its attempt in contributing to a deepened understanding of the issue of Literal Inquisition, and it also provides an enlightening lesson for the construction of a liberal cuhural realm at present time.