The Latest Collection And Study On The Nongovernmental Writ Of Contract In Fujian Province

The collection and study on the nongovernmental writ of contract is an important field in the research of the history of Chinese community economy history. Starting from the beginning of the 20th Century, especially from the fifties and sixties, the old generation of historians gained remarkable achievements through the collection and reordering of the nongovernmental writ of contract and multi-aspect studies on the community economic issue evidencing from the writ of contract. This dissertation express the latest achievements by the newly and detail consideration of the recent studies on the writ of contract since the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the previous research achievements through the latest collection of the nongovernmental writ of contract and related documents. The dissertation contains five chapters. The first chapter reviews the previous research achievements and the current study situation of the community economy fields since the beginning of the 20th Century and introduces the latest collection of the nongovernmental writ of contract and related documents. The second chapter emphasizes the legal right relation, the land ownership, clan and land authority, relative and neighbor preference through the study of the writ of contract since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.On the basis of the analysis of the new collection of nongovernmental writ of contract along with the other related information, the third chapter investigates deeply on the up and fall history of industry and commerce of Mr. Huang Zong Han's family in the Qing Dynasty. It also focus on the entrusting management's transformation in the Qing Dynasty, and nongovernmental relationship between Fujian Procvince and Taiwan Province since the Qing Dynasty and Women trading shown in the Fujian writ of contract in the Qing Dynasty and the longan trading in JinJiang county's writ of contract from the end of the Qing Dynasty till the beginning of The Republic Of China. The fourth chapter introduces in brief some of the special nongovernmental relationship among the mass collection of the writ of contract. Finally, the fifth chapter collects over twenty-three hundred latest found writs of contract and I expect to draw the attention of my fellow researchers to study, and to promote the further collection and study on the nongovernmental writ ofcontract.