The Oceanic Migrants Within China In Ming-Qing Dynasty

The thesis, under the guidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, with the methods of the integration of subjects on the history of the Chinese oceanic social economy, and the oceanic humanistic sociology, etc, analyses and explains the general rules of migration within China during Ming and Qing dynasties. The thesis includes the following six parts:Chapter I introduces the present position and basic structure, methods, subject, time, and the origins of the sources of the history of Chinese oceanic social economy. It tries to integrate the research of the history of Chinese oceanic social economy, provides the researchers with enough data.Chapter II discuses the basic characteristics of traditional oceanic culture of China, explains the position and characters of migrants within China before Ming and Qing dynasties, makes a good basic for a coherent progress of the thesis.Chapter III explains the historical background of migration within China during Ming -Qing dynasty, with the traditional theory of push-drug, the theory of investment-profit, as well as the theory of expectation income, explains the background of migration within China during Ming and Qing dynasties, includes three parts: the integration of objective and subjective, with the increasing of population and the changes of social surroundings, the social economy shifted from traditional mode to trade one, and the oppression brought by the sea prohibition to the sea economy.Chapter IV explains the outlook of migration within China during Ming and Qing dynasties. It points out that the movement of a larger scale of the migrants within China was cohesive with the world migrants, and that the climax of migrants from the imnerIXAbstractcountry to along the coastal regions as well as the nearer islands. We can know the condition of migration during Ming and Qing dynasties, with the help of explaination of routes, ancestral hometown, regions, types and social structures of migrants.Chapter V explains the relation between the migrants and the development of the islands.During Ming and Qing dynasties, within the increasing of quantity of migrants, the islands developed in some extent. The coastal areas became the nests of the smugglers, the refuges of the poor peasants and the basis of the merchants.The economy of the sea coastal areas in the whole economy became more and more important.The economic structure of the sea islands shifted from the traditional and single agriculture one to the complex structures including the fishery, salting, handwork-industry, trade and business.Chapter VI introduces the inter-moving of migration within the Chinese continent and the islands. During Ming and Qing dynasties, migrants made a great contribution to the exploitation of the eastern coastal areas of China and the islands. The destination of migrants was not single, the migrants often returned to their hometown, and made contribution to the development of their hometown. This part introduces the process of inter-moving of migration within China during Ming and Qing dynasties.