Ming And Qing Dynasties Private Philanthropy Research

The time of the Ming and Qing, although increased social unrest, changes in major development within the community but there are subtle uniqueness. At this time, bearing a prosperous commodity economy, afterglow, making performance as the volatile external situation, and can't hide the fact, grass-roots community development in the emerging factors. Ignored in the history of charitable perspective, the Ming and Qing Dynasty and the Tang and Song dynasties in the history of Chinese charity in transition, like charity, is also an important transition period. The time, especially since the late Ming, the community charity gradually given by the non-implementation of the casual style to a more stable career type.Sin of good will as the center there is a charitable organization illustrates this point. Importantly, in this line is also good books and popular peak, in the so-called "good book movement" under the influence of good books with the rise and the extent of the expansion, more and more people in the good books advised of the next set foot on the road to doing good, good man to increase and showed a mass, social and characteristics of the times.So, charitable organizations, good books and good man to run through the inevitable link - the rich class and wealth, the role of power, form the Ming and Qing Dynasties the full pattern of private philanthropy. Ming-dominant groups of society as an important foundation for the rich class is the main source of the good man, They are broad and deep participation in charitable organizations created and published the book The Spread of Excellence, making intermittent social stratification in the whole process of growing up to the main way to appeal and to private charities active in the performance of proactive and demonstrate a clear-cut that time characteristics, but also become an event in Modern Society.This study, based on study of the rich class, based on the theoretical framework to the macro-and micro-case study combined with a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the charitable organizations, good books and good man of the relevant circumstances, the final point which is that the late Ming Early in the rich class has become a charitable organization the actual implementation of the main, do-good groups in the main constitute the main medium of the book. In other words, the late Ming and early Qing prosperous private philanthropy should be grouped became rich class of mature, rather than simply to understand but the emergence of the gentry class. Similarly, put "off society" in the context of the research may explain the late Qing Dynasty and more choice, "good man" image appears and the rich class in the creation of charity and good books streaming is embodied - the characteristics of pre-civil society more appropriate.