Public Crisis And Social Response In Modern Southern Yangtze

The society of modern Southern Yangtze was transitioned and changed. On the one hand, therepresentative of natural disaster had increased frequency in crisis disastrous events. On the one hand,the representative of plague punctuated the sudden public health events. On the one hand, therepresentative of mass troubled events continued the social crisis disturbance. In modern society changeof historic background, the government relieves which representative of traditional mechanism fadedaway, and the folk relieve and missionary relieve which representative of modern mechanism began torise. The purpose of this article is to explain the mechanism changes of modern Southern Yangtzesociety, by research approach of public crisis management, which is analyze the mechanism changes inmicro-perspective and fundamental contents.As far as public crisis events concerned, the modern public crisis events had the characteristics ofcompound, continuity and heterogeneity, and the stalemate of government legitimacy crisis,heterogeneity of national crisis, people frustration crisis, which caused traditional powerful structurereflection of the sharp change with Confucian values. As far as crisis response mechanism concerned,the government led to response model had been unable to change the weakness of traditional society.The mechanism had the gradual risen in official and unofficial co-operation and Sino-foreignco-operation as binary response, which made the structural of government relief, civil relief andmissionary relief in common situation. The change of crisis response mechanism had emerged socialresources of cohesion and integration, which led to the change of Southern Yangtze society structure. Asfar as crisis response model concerned, the natural disaster relief had been weakness. Thedecision-makers of public crisis events made full use of modern financial instruments and donations,created a traditional mechanism changed to modern mechanism, which is manifestated of times.The change of public crisis response mechanism was not reached this aim in one move, butdemonstrated a systematic development process. Take the plague of Canton-Hong Kong in1894forexample, the Southern Yangtze peoples were lack of fundamental knowledge in public crisis health, andthe policy makers were not known how to deal with. Chinese peoples had realized the importance ofestablishment in public crisis system from Shanghai concession crisis response. In plague of1910, theSouthern Yangtze peoples had change attitude from passive, negative to active, positive, and built apublic health response system. Owing to western political power, Chinese peoples taken a disadvantageposition in health and quarantine, sparked a quarantine event, and caused struggle and self-quarantine.The hurricane relief of Nanhui County in1915was a historic significance event. In the process ofhurricane response, beside the traditional response measures, tried to use the financial methods,multi-channel financing, thereby expanded the source of cashes to promote the innovation of response approach.Therefore, the public crisis events were not isolated incidents, with triggered a chain reaction ofpolitical, economic, social, and associated with the times. According to this cognition, only thoroughlyresearch study of public crisis response mechanisms, which enabled us to recognize the true face ofSouthern Yangtze society, and built a micro-history research method. The authors believe that this wayfrom macro-historians to micro-historians research methods will promote the history of science towardsthe development of a new direction.