Early Reformers Thought Of Social Relief

In modern times,with the invasion of western culture,ancient China became weak.China began the hard processes of studying from statecraft ideology to westernization thought.The early reform group includes a group of intellectuals who had the preliminary bourgeois thought in China,and they promoted the development of studying from western.Social relief thought occupied an important position in the thought system of early reform group.The thesis uses various research methods including textual criticism,empiricism,comparison,class analysis and qualitative analysis etc.,focuses on the comprehensive survey of social relief though by the early reform group,in order to get an accurate analysis and understanding.Chapter one and chapter two compose Part one,this part describes the social background and thought origin of the rise of social relief thought.From the Opium War,the Qing government was beset by enemies from within and without;its economics began to crock up with disaster and famine.The traditional social welfare lost its functions and utilities.This is the most important element of the history background of the social relief thought.The representatives of the early reform group had been educated systematic Confucianism from early age,while they got contacts with the modern western civilization when they grew up.Therefore,their social relief thought derived from the related thoughts of Chinese traditional culture,such as great harmony concept of Confucianism,karma of Buddhism and Taoism.At the same time,their social relief thought was also influenced by western social relief thought,such as the stimulus of western missionaries,the influence of western books and newspapers and the oversea experience of these early reform thinkers.Part two(Chapter three) introduces the thought to relieve disasters and famines by early reform group.Based on that history background,the thinkers not only elucidated disaster measures actively,put forward the career of disaster relief,but also discussed the reasons leading to endless and useless measures,gave the detailed introduction of western advanced relief thoughts.All of these made positive contribution to modernization of disaster and famine relief thoughts in our country.Part three analyses the poor relief thought by early reform group.The early reform group focused on some aspects causing the poverty of people in modern times,such as large population, invasion of foreign capital,out practice of farmland,wars and political corruption.They paid attention not only to use and reform traditional social welfare institutions,but also to the introduction of western advanced social relief thoughts.The content in this part can be seen as the most modern characteristic of the social relief thought by early reform group.Part four explains the women assistance thought in social relief thought by early reform group.The thinkers emphasized the focus and assistance to social-vulnerable groups especially the women who belonged to the uuderclass of society.They pointed out the importance of women to country,and then gave targeted suggestions such as ban feet binding and set up schools for women.They also adducted so many examples of western and introduced related social welfare institutions to promote the modernization of women assistance thought at that time.Part five summarizes the features of social relief thought by earliest reform group.The features included following aspects:they studied and introduced the social relief thoughts and ideas of western,proposed targeted suggestions and develop the traditional relief thoughts.The study can be helpful to understand the history of social relief thoughts in modern China comprehensively,as well as to promote the development of social security career in nowadays.