晚清潮州商人的慈善活动——以陈雨亭为例

Chaozhou Merechants' Charitable Activities In Late Qing Dynasty——A Research Based on Chen Yuting

晚晴潮州商人和商人团体的慈善活动除了社会救济,还有兴办新式学堂和捐助医院等公益事业。以商人为主导的潮州慈善事业推动了社会的发展。汕头开埠后,西方事物和西式慈善理念的传入极大地影响了商人的慈善活动,陈雨亭是晚清潮州巨商,他的慈善活动展现了传统慈善向现代慈善的嬗变。

Charity activities led by Chaozhou merchants and their organizations in the late Qing Dynasty which included social relief, foundation of new schools, donation to hospitals, and so on promoted the develop- ment of the society. After Shangtou＇s opening-up as a commercial port, businessman＇s act of charity had been greatly influenced by new matlers and philanthropic ideas introduced from the western world. Chen Yuting was a tycoon from Chaozhou in the late Qing Dynasty whose charity activities showed the transition between tradi- tional charity and the modern one.