Research On The Famine Relief In Suzhou (1912-1935)

Based on history, sociology, social psychology, statistics, the article studies the famine relief in Suzhou city. The article give some multi-angle and multi-level study about the generation of famine, the government and the folk organization's famine relief. It investigates the social relief measures especially. The defects among them while seeking were warned.During the Republic of China, there were many modern factors in famine relief measure which implicated in Suzhou city. The pluralistic condition existed in the main body of the social assistance. While under the social strength function, the country continued to use the traditional famine policy thought. Meanwhile, the country gradually consummated the famine rescues system, and paid more attention to display the function of the patriarchal clan organizations, charitable organizations and the folk associations. The famine relief measure emphasized the inside relief cooperation function of the associations .Also, it emphasized the coordination and cooperation which happened in the organization and social storage during the famine relief period. By the social specific community's salvage operations which were given by the organization and patriarchal clan, it made up the limited insufficiencies of the rescue strength that were given by social warehouse and the righteousness warehouse. This region covered some social warehouse and the righteousness warehouse. Reasonably using the folk rescue polytrophic characteristic is a good way to increases the folk rescue strength and the function.During the Republic of China period, the task is only to intensify the effect which...