Study On The Local Self-government Movement Of Zhejiang Province In Late Qing

Later stage of Qing Dynasty, under the internal affairs and the diplomacy press, the Qing government implemented the new dealing. From that time, the Chinese politics started to evolve to the modern democratic system. The local self-government, "basis of the constitutionalism" , played the influential role in the Chinese politics early time modernization process.The author, taken Zhejiang Province as a case, sorts out the whole process of the late Qing local self-government movement of Zhejiang province comprehensively and discusses the concrete results in each stage of the Zhejiang local self-government movement and the influence on the local politics and social development in Zhejiang Province. Furthermore, the author has analyzed under the late Qing new dealing this big background, contradictory existed between local government authorities, gentry and the populace while each one represented the benefit in the Zhejiang local self-government the difference as well as the promotion of gentry power in this autonomous movement. The author also thought that the realistic difficult position was the reason which the late Qing Zhejiang local self-government had not been able to realize finally. But the political modernizing tidal current was unable to prevent, the influence of the rational chooses which the Zhejiang local outstanding person did at the late Qing local self-government movement was profound.