The Gentry In Late Qing Dynasty And Local Seif-government Campaign

In the very late nineteenth and early twentieth century, local self-governmentwhich was tread as rescuing scheme has taken a position at the frontier of publicopinions, Along With the increasing national crisis, an important mission went to facethose intellectuals is salvation. The people who represent bourgeoisie in politics beganto search for path of salvaging the country and the nation. Newspapers and magazineshad started special programs and columns, which extensively propagate and heatedlydiscuss the local autonomy. The local autonomy attracted the attention of manyreaders. Along with the development of economic power, national bourgeoisie has astrong desire to Participate Political things and made a strong politically claim. Localautonomy theory became the theoretical bases and a guide to action for Asset class ofgentry to start the implementation of the local self-government system. The realityconditions made the local autonomy to be possible. China’s national capitalism tookits first steps forward, the vibration of national crisis, the impact of the new politicalthought, the fear of revolution, and the abolishment of the imperial examinationsystem Makes these better educated people lost the rank of the order, they had to seeknew outlets. On the occasion, the Qing government who is in the internal and external,under the pressure of bourgeois constitutionalists and the part of officials andadvocacy, played the banner of the constitutional and local self-government as apreparatory constitutional.The southeast coast of the bourgeois gentry began the practice of localself-government under the permission of the local officials spontaneously. Thegentry’s management and officials, Girdles, jointly organized by localself-government movement in the country is gradually unfolded. Autonomous bodiesand institutions in local self-government, the gentry is always the backbone, they arenot only local self-government advocates, and implementers, but also the biggestbeneficiaries. They began to get involved in the Industrial and Commercial Industrial,modern education, journalism, publishing, and a variety of cultural and politicalcareer. They played an important role in the process of modernization of China. Local self-government was put into practice in the case of lack of funding andpersonnel, inevitably there are many drawbacks, but the local self-governmentco-organized by the gentry’s management and officials, Girdles, cheer the nationalspirit. It also promote the development of constitutional democracy, in China had agreat influence in the modernization process.