The Study On Farmers' Income And Expenditure In Jiangnan Of Republic Of China (1920-1937)

The research on farmers' income and expenditure with important history and reality significance, which was attracted by the general public. Domestic and foreign scholars took a lot of research on it with varieties theories and different perspectives, which got high quality research achievement. But lot's of those researches focused on farmer's expenditure especially on taxes expenditure, little touch upon farmer's income.The thesis took research on farmers' income in Jiangnan during Republic of China (1920-1937), which found out that the farmers' income and expenditure condition after 1930 years was worsened. The reason of this result was not the increase of farmers' expenditure especially the taxes expenditure but was the decrease of the farmers' income. Thereby the conclusion was that the change of farmers' income took greater influence on farmers' income and expenditure than farmers' expenditure.Through the analyze of the investigate data at that time, I found out that the fear and speculate psychology with investigation of farmer which was the important reasons that cause the data of fanners' expenditure and debt higher, but this factor always be neglected in forward research.Lastly , the thesis explored the reasons of great decrease of farmers' income after 1930 years, which found out that the "big inundation" of 1931 and the world economic crisis begin on 1929 were the main reasons to reduced the farmers' income , and that were the essential reasons of the condition of farmers' income and expenditure be worsen after 1930 years.