清代江南社区赈济与地方社会

Communal Relief and Local Societies South of the Yangtse River during the Qing Dynasty

文章着重讨论了清代江南地区的社区赈济活动 ,尤其对以都图里甲庄圩乡镇等为单位的小型社区的赈济加以时空上的勾画。在此基础上 ,通过考察社区赈济与地方仓储、交通水平、宗族、基层社会构成等之间的诸多联系 ,折射出清代江南地方社会职能的多元化倾向以及基层社会组织重新整合的大致轮廓。研究表明 ,社区赈济之所以在江南地区长期存在 。

This paper focuses on communal relief in areas south of the Yangtse River during the Qing dynasty,espe cially on a temporal and spatial description of the small scale relief activities in the communities at the grass root levels.Through an investigation of the relationships between communal relief and the storage,transport,clans and the composition of grassroots societies,an outline emerges of the development of the plural social functions of local societies and the reintegration of grassroots social organizations south of the Yangtse River during the Qing dynasty.Research shows that one of the most important reasons for the long existence of communal relief was its reliance on the various resources of local societies.