Rural Economic Ethics The Sunan Images

The countryside is the foundation of the Chinese society. Generally, an ethical approach to the survey of the development of a rural economy includes at least two interrelated aspects: (1) to reveal ethical changes and transitions in the development of the rural economy; (2) to explore how an ethical culture or morals could be conducive to or an obstacle to the development of the rural economy. I choose the situations and matters of economic ethics in the "South of Jiangsu" as the subject matter of my dissertation. I apply an interdisciplinary and moral-life-based methodology of ethics and sociology to have an analysis and synthesis of a great deal of literature and field survey data. Based upon the analysis and the synthesis of the data, I outline the historical tradition of economy and ethics and its transition in the rural areas in the South of Jiangsu and try to describe and explain the current situations and double-function of economic ethics in the rural areas of Southern Jiangsu. The agricultural production means of cultivating-weaving and cultivating-fishing in the South of Jiangsu, the beforehand development of agricultural business, and the ethical tradition of hardworking and thrifty, prudence and reason, flexibility and orderliness, and emphasis on education in Wu Culture, all have formed the particularities of the rural economic ethics in the South of Jiangsu. Since the early 20th century, the development of the countryside economy in the South of Jiangsu has broken through the traditional production means and living style, and has changed the economic relations and the relations of interests among the people in the rural areas. The current countryside economy and ethics come out as a result of the changes and transitions of the traditional economy and ethics. The formation, development and termination of the "mode of economic ethics in the South of Jiangsu " embody the co-existence of the double role of impetus and resistance of economic ethics in the countryside of Southern Jiangsu. The new mode of the economic ethics in the South of Jiangsu will come true as a result of the institution innovation based upon the ethical innovation. As a whole, succeeding to the traditional and absorbing the foreign will continuously optimize the economic ethics in the South of Jiangsu, and this will advance the economic development in the South of Jiangsu and will help this area keep its relative preponderance in China.