Ling Tao And The Regional Social Governance Of Jiangxi In Mid-Qing Dynasty

Mainly consulted by the historical book “Xijiang Shinie Jishi”, this thesis hasclassified its content, investigated the Jiangxi regional social managing methods andeffects by Lingtao, the Jiangxi Judicial Commissioner during Yongzheng&Qianlongperiod, revealed the society of Jiangxi during the middle of Qing Dynasty period,and showed the internal relationship between local officials administration andregional social changes during the middle of Qing Dynasty from two aspects such asCorrupt Practices Prohibition&Market Regulation, Custom Exchange&BanditControl.“Xijiang Shinie Jishi” is the opus Lingtao lauded when Lingtao assumed theJiangxi Judicial Commissioner. It is five chapters in total, including Points List inChapter One, Details Explanation in Chapter Two, Information Origin in ChapterThree, Principles and Rules in Chapter Four, and another one chapter was furtherimplemented, The work contains rich of historical materials and records every aspectof the society, which is helpful for us to realize how the Judicial Commissionermanage and affect the Jiangxi regional society during the middle of Qing DynastyPeriod.From the various documents of “Xijiang Shinie Jishi”, we can get know thebasic idea and specific methods of “Moralizing Laws and Improving Customs” thatLingtao executed during his management in Jiangxi regional society. That iscombining the “ruled by law” and “ruled by people” together and thus making theregional management successfully. For Corrupt Practices Prohibition&MarketRegulation, there were many factors blocking the market development in Jiangxiregional places, Lingtao had controlled the various bad rules in broker, established the solutions to prohibiting illegal salt and also cracked down the private currencymaking and the compelled credit custom; For Custom improvement, Lingtao hadmoralized the bad custom mainly by changing the evil habits such as “GravesRobbing”,“Bones Funeral”. For Social Security, Lingtao had taken various solutionsby integrating the laws with encouragement to strictly control and suppress the secretsects such as “Guazi Thief” and “Scatter beggar”. All of the solutions not only werethe positive method for the problem appeared in Jiangxi local society, but also hadeffected the future Jiangxi society development.