Republic Of China Magistrate Cohort Study

After Xinhai Revolution, wars were frequent, and the warlords set up many separatist regimes by force of arms. The district influence was growing, but the central authority was on the decline. The country magistrate community which had charge of district administrative power had sensitively reflected the time vicissitude and the changing of social macroenvironment. During the Beiyang government time, the government attempted to standardize the tenure qualification of country magistrate by the experimenting magistrate system. Because the political situation transformed frequently, these systems could not be carried out in practice. At this time, the county magistrate community differed from the Qing dynasty in the tenure native parrying system as well as the tenure period and the replacing system. As Kuomintang came into power, the government promulgated many laws and regulations about the comity magistrate's appointment system time after time, and attempted to further standardize the assigning of country magistrate through these laws and regulations. These legal systems were carried out relatively well in Jiangsu Province. During this period, the county magistrate had specific time characters in the community origin and constitution, a great many county magistrate came into power by passing the county magistrate test, they once had received the higher education on the whole. The county magistrate community were somewhat different from the the Beiyang government time in the tenure native parrying system as well as the tenure period and the replacing system. All of these manifested that the national society was developing into a modernization nation, which possessed extremely positive significance.