The Flood Disaster And Its Social Relief Facilities Of Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic Of China In Guangdong Province

Because of the special geography and climate, Guangdong province is easily subjected to flood disaster. It causes a lot of social problems. During late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, great changes have taken place in Guangdong province. Different social classes have different changes. Their activities had enormous social effects on social relief in this period. Therefore, only when the new forces emerged in this period was understood, its society, political, economic, cultural and other aspects of change can be more profound understood. The Qing government hasn't the ability to save decline tendency, the modern capitalism gradually replaced the traditional agricultural economy, the bourgeoisie and the businessmen classes have risen, foreign religious forces have come into China, disaster relief has in line with international practice, these new changes make us understand how all sectors of society have interacted and reflected the social features. Since late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China is a particular historical period, the Disaster Relief shows obvious features: a range of members are involved in relief activities, there are a large number of charities, large and modern technology promote the progress of relief work and foreign relief personnel created a new international cooperation channels, the civil relief has risen instead. The social relief of Guangdong province in this period had a profound influence on other areas. It provides a good solution for other areas' social relieves and promotes the modernization of china's charities.