A Study On Geographical Distribution Of Military Scholars In The Late Qing

After the Opium war, the nature of Chinese society had experienced the change from Feudal society to Semi-feudal society. The academic thoughts also changed from the import of neoteric capitalist humanities and natural science to a new situation that the Chinese and Western cultural thoughts collided and fused with each other. So a new academic thoughts and genres appeared. Therefore the Present Characters Confucianism, which adapted to the demonstration of the social reform, has revived again. The literary works in this moment are greatly different with the works before. It largely showed people's doleful feeling, revealed the recreance and darkness of the government, and satirized the corruption of the placeman. The literary works in this moment are the turning point of old literature to new literature. At the same time, a group of educators actively took part in the reform of neoteric education system. Scientific technology had gotten further development under the new historical condition.This essay collects and analyzes the birthplace of scripture reader, litterateur, educator, and scientist in the late Qing dynasty from the perspective of the geographical distribution of these scholars' birthplaces. We can know from the rules in the analysis that from the geographical distribution of these scholars like scripture reader, litterateur, educator, and scientist, its obvious trend was that the south overdid the north, but it was not consistent. They mainly concentrated on the developed places and exoteric places——the southeast coastal areas (mainly include Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian) and the Yangtze River drainage basin (mainly include Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan). It was relatively fewer in the northeast, the southwest, and the northwest.Nowadays, the academia made a lot of researches on the history of literature in the late Qing dynasty, but it was lack of systematic research on the geographical distribution of the birthplaces of the scholars in the late Qing dynasty. Therefore, I try to collect and analyze the geographical distribution of these scholars in this period to get further understanding of the influence of politics, economics, and culture on the distribution of the scholars in the late Qing dynasty. By doing so, we can get better understanding of the geographical distribution of the talented person in the late Qing dynasty.