Border Gentry And Border Society

After the 1990s, the study of gentry gradually began to study in the regional perspective. The researchers focused on the gentry in certain areas, highlighting the different regions, different positions of the gentry or the subtle difference in the concept of elite position. But the gentry community in the border area still be less into the research field of scholars. In this paper, it will be transferred to the field of vision of the Republic of China the tenglong borderland to explore the world in the eyes of "Frontiers" of the border gentry groups.The tenglong borderland is which Tengchong, Longling southwest area near Burma, about a small part of Baoshan and Dehong,whichis thetypical of frontier minority areas.Frontier and nationality is the main characteristics of gentry group in tenglong borderland during the period of the republic.Gentry community mainly rely on the identity of the national top border region for local power and local power and economic power.Level of education is generally low on the mainland.At the same time,the gentry group of Tenlong borderland mainly ethnic border region,such as dai, chang, jingpo. At the same time, along with the frontier crisis deepens and the progress of the society, tenglong borderland gentry group also showed some early modernization tendency.The gentry group of Tenlong borderland during the period the republic closely related to social development.Embodied in three aspects:firstly, the gentry community of the tenglong borderland promoted regularization process of grassroots political frontier through grass-roots political participation.such as full of contradictions between tusi system’s supporters and advocates of bureaucratization of native officers and a large number of gentry community enter local grass-roots regime to assist the local administration. They partly conform to the trend to consolidate their position, but also by promoting the normalization and democratization of border regime. Secondly, the gentry community of the tenglong borderland in the war were various anti-Japanese activities in order to protect the homeland. Part of the gentry community in the borderland played an active role in the war material assistance and formation of the anti-Japanese groups. Of course, we should objectively look at the different attitudes to war. Thirdly, the gentry community of the tenglong borderland and frontier construction. The local gentry or use their own advantages, actively assist the local government, or independent establishment of education, transportation, which emerged many typical characters.By the gentry community in the border area preliminary carding and analysis, we can increase our understanding of the border gentry during the Republic of China. At the same time, social studies grassroots border in the regional perspective which it is also a response to urbanization, the rural order, cultural reconstruction and reconstruction of the "new squire" community. Inadequacies of the article, please Fang correction.