| Scholars'Societies were very popular in the South of Yangtze River Region (Jiangnan) in Ming-Qing Dynasty. These Societies had made great contributions to the history of literature, reginal culture and scholar-society development. However, the existing academic research of such Societies is still somewhat inelegant and limited. With a focus on the specific geographical region, the thesis represents further research findings and analysis on the subject.The existing research statements showed that there were no more than 40 Scholars'Societies in the Region in Ming-Qing Dynasty. However, through acquiring vast stores of dry information, the author investigated that there were nearly 300 such Societies existed in the Region during the time period. Based on this investigation, the author classifies those Societies into groups, such as the Eight-Part Essay Society, The Family-Based Society, Adherents'Society and Seniors Scholars'Society, and analyzed their characteristics respectively. Moreover, the author also explored the relationships between such Societies and literature, and worked over some issues regarding the Fu Society.Preface is a brief introduction about the significance, status quo, related data and tentative plan of the research. The term of"South of Yangtze River Region (Jiangnan)"and related concepts and terminologies, which concern the research considerably, are also defined in this session.The body of this thesis can be broadly divided into three sessions:The first session is the first chapter. It is a general discussion of the Ming-Qing Jiangnan scholars'Societies. The content discourses upon the Societies'geographic locations, development and dissemination, and their style of literacy activities.The second session includes Chapter II through Chapter V. In this session, the author aimed at in-depth understanding of several typical scholars Societies, analyze and discourse their characteristics from various angles. Chapter II focuses on the Eight-part Essay Society. Base on carding at the historical developing clew of such Society during Ming-Qing period, this chapter discusses how societal factors, such as the traditional examination-system of china, had impacted and influenced the Society's development significantly. Taking family kinship as a leading clue, Chapter III studies the relationship between families and scholars'Societies. First provides an overview of the fundamental status and structures of Jiangnan families, and then analyze the family factors on the Societies'development and promotion. Moreover, the type of the society, characteristics and significance of family-bound are also discussed. Chapter IV studies the Ming-Qing Jiangnan old Poetry Society. First, the chapter explains the definition and concepts of the old poetry, following by an introduction of such Society. Secondly, the chapter discusses the prosperity reasons, activity characteristics of the Society, and thus appraises the works of the Society members. Chapter V focuses on the Society of Adherents in the early Qing Dynasty. Base on the general profile research of this type of Society, the chapter discourses the creation process, characteristics and activity styles of the specific Society. Taking the Lotus Society Wantanshihua as an example, the author also analyzes the literature works of the Society of Adherents of Ming Dynasty.Chapter VI makes the third session. This chapter focuses on the relationship between Scholars'Societies and other literary groups. Without counting on the differences in activity styles of these Societies, the author gives an overall inspection of the interactions between the Societies and literature. First of all, the author further separates the Societies into several groups by their creative writing tendencies, according to the traditional literature genres such as poetry, essay and Ci. Based on this classification, the author summarizes the characteristic of several representative groups, in term of how their creative works contributed to the Societies of Jiangnan in Ming-Qing Dynasty; Secondly, the author also analyzes the relationship between the Societies and literature genres. Taking the Liangxi Poetry genres developed from the Cloud Gate Society as a typical case, the research discovered the contact between the literary genre and the Societies and their members from the micro perspective.Given the particularity of the Fu Society in the history of literature, as well as the existing research status quo of this Society, the thesis takes the Society as a special case to study. As a result, the research finding of this part has been arranged as an affiliated session. As a whole, this session analyzes and discourses three issues concerned with the Fu society. These three issues include the processes of the formation; societal factors of such formation and the contributions of Zhang-pu and several other people; and the Society's construction and relationships in between the branches.Base on the comprehensive study and case analysis, the thesis discourses the historical status of Jiangnan Scholars'Societies in literature societies formation during Ming-Qing Dynasty, and reveals its significance in the history of geographical developing, literature evolution, and regional cultural transitions. Moreover, the thesis also investigated the sustaining impact of these Scholars'Societies to the later Early Republican Scholars'Societies. In conclusion, Jiangnan Scholars'Societies of Ming-Qing were a way of poetic life in that time, and the way of life was a gone literary elegance.
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