清代漕运盛衰与漕船水手纤夫

The rise and fall of the transport of grain by water to Beijing in Qing Dynasty and sailor,boat tracker of grain ship

清代漕运在晚清由盛转衰,由此带来一系列社会问题,其间原先藉漕运谋生的人数众多的漕船水手纤夫的遭遇和动向,反映了晚清社会转型中所面临的困局和难题。

The transport of grain by water to Beijing experienced a great fluctuation from prosperity to decline in the late Qing Dynasty, which touched off a series of social questions, such as means of livelihood of sailor and boat tracker of grain ship. The encounter and trend of multitudinous sailors and boat trackers of grain ship reflected predicament and problem been faced by the social transformation in the late Qing government.