The New Age And The Old Literati:Liu Dapeng In The Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic Of China

Since tuixiangzhai riji left by the literat Liu DaPeng in Taiyuan published, has caused great attention of scholars, and has become one of influenced data in the field of China’s modern social history.Professor Qiao just published some parts of tuixiangzhai riji in the past,so most scholars used the print as a foundation for research.This article uses all of the content in Shanxi Province Library as the research basis of microfilm.Social changes in the qing dynasty greatly impact the literati in late qing dynasty,and caused the differentiation and evolution of the gentry class.Liu DaPeng as the inland traditional gentry in the late qing dynasty, in the face of enormous social change, not only the inner layers of flutter, life path is changed.Liu DaPeng wanted to enter the government agencies since the childhood and did his efforts to achieve the goal. But the abolition of the imperial civil service examination system,disillusioned Liu Dapeng’s dream,and also let the gentry class depends on the guarantee of living no longer exists.How big blow for them. At the same time, four people society also gradually disintegrated along with the abolition of the imperial civil service examination system.The gentry class gradually went down the chief of the society. Liu DaPeng lived a ordinary life of the school teachers in late qing dynasty, its political ambitions have not been able to achieve.After the government of the republic of China was founded, LiuDaPeng changed the political conditions.He had served as the president of the duma of the county, surveys and national representatives,the director of fiscal ccba, bureau of public funds manager, the special director for chamber of commerce, coal mine office director,Taiyuan county women’s higher primary school principal and so on.The busy life contrasted the life in the late qing dynasty. At the same time, he also involved in business field, invested in coal mines and went far away from the original life trajectory. Although Liu DaPeng had a very good time in the republic of China,he still couldn’t agree with the government of the republic of China and wanted to go back to the Qing government The identity he had achieved in the qing dynasty and the good Confucian reputation became his advantages in the republic of China. But Liu Dapeng couldn’t adapt to the changes of the new time in the end,when he faced these political opportunities, he failed to grasp well. He spent the rest of his lives as a "farmer".He were both a merchant and a farmer;both a politician and a gentleman...