The Population Migration And Social Change Of The Qianjiang River Basin During Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

The Population Migration and Social Change of the Qianjiang River Basin during Qing Dynasty and the Republic of ChinaAs the important form of expression of the population issue, population migration hasimportant influence on the development of society of a country or a region. So populationmigration becomes the focus that the scholar pays close attention to in recent years. In thisrespect, the academia has already made the quite rich achievement. But because every scholardiffered from purpose and emphasis, up to now, the academia shows less interest in theinterrelation question between the population migration and social change of Guangxi. Inview of this, my tutor, associate professor Fan Yunchun, applied for some subjects to study.These subjects are "A Study of the Han Nationality Immigrant in Red River Basin", "The HanNationality Immigrant of Guangxi and Guangxi Nationality Merge during Ming and QingDynasty" and "The Population Migration of the Han Nationality and Social Change ofGuangxi during Ming and Qing Dynasty". As one of the member of these subjects, I chose"The Population Migration and Social Change of the Qianjiang River Basin during QingDynasty and the Republic of China" as my thesis' title, hoped to do some helpful tries in thisrespect.Because population migration is a complicated social historical course, we must usemany kinds of methods to study. Besides adopting the traditional history research approach,the thesis will also use ethnological, sociological and anthropological research approach tocarry on discussion to the research object as overall as possible.My thesis consists of foreword, main part and conclusion.At first, the foreword retrospects to achievement in research and weak point thatforefathers made on the interrelation of immigrant and society change. Then I introduce theselected title source of the thesis, do brief defining to the research object, and discuss theinnovation and weak point of the thesis.The subject of the thesis includes two parts:The first part describes history of population migration of Qianjiang River basin duringQing Dynasty and the Republic of China especially. Under the foundations of reviewinghistory of population migration of Qianjiang River basin before Qing Dynasty, I especiallyanalyse several factors that have important influence on population migration of QianjiangRiver basin during Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and give a general description tothe course of population migration and summarize on some basic characteristics of populationmigration at the same time. I think, history of population migration of Qianjiang River basinhad already begun since Han Dynasty early. But during the long history from Han to MingDynasty, influenced by the degree of development of Qianjiang River basin oneself andadjacent regional demographic situation, the scale of immigrant entering Qianjiang Riverbasin is small, and rely mainly on the political immigrant and the military immigrant of thepassive type more. In the period of Qing Dynasty, an immigration policy was initiated by thegovernment of Qing Dynasty that encouraged people to bring barren land under cultivation inthe borderland. Under this background, with the enhancement of appeal to immigrant and theincrease of population pressure of neighboring provinces and areas, large quantities ofimmigrants moved to Qianjiang River basin spontaneously. In the period of the Republic ofChina, the policy of encouraging cultivation initiatde by New Guangxi Province Governmentattracted many immigrants' arrival that reclaimed a large of land too. In addition, largequantities of refugees moved to the interior during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Sopopulation migration of Qianjiang River basin reached a climax during the Republic of China.Compared with former generation, immigrants entering Qianjiang River basin during QingDynasty and the Republic of China relied mainly on spontaneous economical immigrants.Compared...