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Research On The Natural Disaster And Relieving Famine Policy From Late Qing Dynasty To Early People's Republic Of China (1840-1927)

Posted on:2005-10-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K L LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360125965172Subject:China's modern history
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China is much of disasters and calamities in history all kinds of disasters such as floods,droughts, plagues of insects, earthquakes frequently happened in sequence .for the country likeagriculture-based china, the frequent occurrence of natural calamities has caused massivelaboring people to face the natural brutal ness from time to time, and to live a sad and miserablelife over thousands of years even nowadays, the natural calamities are still threatening all thehuman beings. Now the loss caused by natural calamities in china and the other places ifuncountable so careful research into the calamities and exploration to the occurrence anddevelopment law will be of current significance .the period between the end of the man dynastyand the early days of people`s republic of china is regarded as one of the four periods ofconcentrated disaster and calamity occurrence by the historical field.facing such seriouscalamities all walks of the life act actively and speeded up the birth of the means of relievingpeople in the stricken areas-righteous relieving of the people in the stricken areas,with china`sreliving famine transformation from the traditional society to the modern one, china`s securitypolicy has already experienced the big turn and faster development, that is the modernization ofchina`s relieving famine policy. But with regard to the research of the modernization of securityPeople`s Republic of china is still weak, which doesn't match the main effect of the calamityand security on the human society,Given this, the papers choose relieving famine policy of the period between the end of mandynasty and the early days of people`s republic of china as the research object, and the serousnatural disaster and calamities in between 1840and 1927 as the exploration setting.The first part explores the disaster phenomena in between 1840 and 1927 all over china andthe serious effect and makes use of wistorical information and data to compile the list of thenumber of large amount of historical the stricken counties all over china and analyzs the naturaland social elements of occurrence of the serious natural disasters and calamities .the secondpark explores the organization and behavior of the government and the non governmentorganizations in the disaster relief providing in the period. Facing such serious disasterphenomena, the late man dynasty government and the Bei-Yang government took correspondingmeasures, but due to political corruption, financial shortage, the effect was given a big discount.Contrary to this, nongovernmental organizations actively took part in the calamity and sacristyrelief. From the point of view of the aspects of the association of fellow provincials ortownsmen, the trade organization, the news circle, the papers describes in detail the activities ofthe non-governmental disaster relief providing organizations and the operating means of thedisaster relief pattern of the righteous relief, and it evalues objectively and fairly themissionaries' disaster relief activities in china. It is clear that the non-governmental disasterrelief organizations bore the heavy burden of the social disaster relief in the transformation from 2the traditional society to the modern society and became an unlackable important strength of thesocial adjustment.The third part, mainly according to the theory of modernization, with regard to thecharacterizes of modernization embodied by the security policy in the period, analyzes themodernization of relieving famine polity from the respective point of view of disaster reliefideas, technical methods and the systems. It is derived from the disaster relief process that as faras the government was concerned, their social functions were incomplete, and the disaster reliefsystems were imperfect and there existed many problems in the disaster relief process in regardto the non-governmental organization, traditional social organizations and new existing groupsboth took active part in the disa...
Keywords/Search Tags:the late Qing dynasty and the early People's Republic of china, Natural disaster, Relieving famine polity.
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