Some Issueson Social Redress In Han Dynasty

As a kind of social securities, social redress is a social conduct that the nation and society supply necessary life necessity and boon in multiple ways for people who suffer from penury and thus cannot lead a basic life themselves because of natural disasters, accidents, and disability. Han Dynasty is a feudal country after the fall of Qin Dynasty and its social redress system develops as the era. Applying the research approaches of history and sociology, this dissertation mainly explores disaster redress, the redress of the disadvantaged groups, the folk charity redress and the social redress of Han Dynasty (including The Eastern Han Dynasty and The Western Han Dynasty) and their differences.The dissertation consists of seven chapters:Chapter one distinguishes and corrects the statistic of natural disasters occurring in Han Dynasty. As far as the times of natural disasters of Han Dynasty, many scholars have made statistic. These statistical figures, however, are not totally accurate, and thus cannot objectively reflect the reality of the disaster of Han Dynasty. Therefore, it necessitates coordination and emendation of these statistical figures.Chapter two explores the officials who are in charge of the social redress, and the system of financial arrangement and related rewards and punishment.Chapter Three expounds the actions of disaster redress and its evaluation. As for this issue, scholars have made great achievements. It, however, still needs further exploration. For example, as one of disaster prevention methods, storage system also includes Chang Pin system that the government purchases grain when grain price decreases and sells it when its price increases so as to secure the basic life of the poor. This system has positive effects both on the stability of commodity price and on the disaster redress. Scholars have not deepened their research in this field. What's more, as a kind of disaster redress, flood harness is seldom referred. These two issues will be construed here.Chapter Four discusses the redress of the disadvantaged groups which include the disable, women, children, the aged and the poor.Chapter Five sets forth the redress of poor officials and poor imperial examination candidates. Due to some causes, these people fall into financial crisis and thus become members of the governmental redress.Chapter Six expounds the folk charitable conducts in Han Dynasty. There was no charity arranged by the government in Han Dynasty. Folk charity is widely spread. This chapter will center on the personal charity, clan redress, the folk associations of mutual help and the neighborhood help.Chapter Seven compares the different characteristics of social redress between The Eastern Han Dynasty and The Western Han Dynasty as to show the light on the research on this field.