晚清河南灾荒救助体系的特点及成效

Characteristics and Results of Famine Relief System in Henan Province in late Qing Dynasty

晚清时期我国内忧外患严重,灾荒发生频繁,随着社会结构和政治体制的变化,传统的灾荒救助体制也呈现出许多新特点。由此出现的救灾主体地位的变化、救灾意识观念的更新以及新型救灾模式的产生,都对传统的荒政体制产生了一系列重要影响。但由于当时政府的腐败、荒政管理体制的松弛以及社会救灾资金的匮乏,使得近代兴起的官民合办的赈灾模式并未取得其应有的救灾成效。

Chinese people suffered from severe and frequent famines in late Qing Dynasty. With changes in social structure and political system, the traditional famine relief system also presented some new characteristics. The change in relief subjects and relief ideas and new relief model produced a series of important influence on traditional relief system, but due to the corruptive government, laxity of the relief management system and shortage of relief funds, the modern official and civilian relief model did not produced its due effects.