A Research On Guizhou Bandits Problem During The Early Republic (1912-1926)

During the period of Republic of China,especially in the year of 1912-1926,the numerous number of Guizhou bandits with wide distribution,high levels of organizations and great influence on the society.During the period of China which was famous for banditry,all of these had typicality.The banditry had became a serious social problem in Guizhou.Various factors integrated into cooperation forces,that resulted in so severe banditry problem in Guizhou.On the whole,the warlords fights, bureaucracy corruption,frequently occurred natural disasters and neighbouring bandits intrusion etc were the dominant factors of banditry rampant in Guizhou,natural geographical environment and humanity environment,populace personalities,sociality factors and so on aspects also had close relations with the occur of this phenomenon.Frequent wars in Guizhou caused huge economic losses to people,and along with the war,all kinds of manpower and material resources apportion compelled the masses risen in revolt.Bureaucracy corruption,justice darkness made people lost their normal rights of petition,so violence became the only means to solve all kinds of disputes.Frequent natural disasters,the lowly social disaster prevention and resistance ability,the increased refugees and homeless people,and frequently neighbouring bandits intrusion,all these intensified the banditry rampant situation.Guizhou had many mountainous,many holes,and many flower arrangement places,the enclosed geographical condition,which provided hidden places with the banditry fertilization.While the local people's deep-rooted ideas,their superstition psychology and aggressive personality,the tough folkway, taking in opium,gambling addictions and so on harmful fondness,that all provided natural hotbeds with the banditry fertilization.Facing the increasingly rampant banditry practice,all classes of guizhou province,whether the government or the folk,or public opinion in newspapers,they input plenty of manpower,material and financial resources to cure,defend and tostoprepress bandits.Although the integral effect was not allow with optimism,it unable fundamentally to eliminate the bandits in guizhou,they hit the arrogance bluster of bandits in a certain extent,that alleviated the survival circumstances of all ethnic groups in Guizhou.