清季湖南灾荒与民变

Hunan's Famine Plague and Mass Uprising in the Late Qing Dynatsty

清代后期湖南灾荒频仍,政府调控不力,造成了社会道德失范的悲剧和一次又一次的社会骚动——民变,主要包括饥民抢米索食的自发斗争、由饥民暴动转化为农民起义、会党利用饥民斗争起事和因瘟疫引发群众性的反洋教斗争等4种形式,反映了清朝后期湖南人民反对帝国主义和清政府的斗争精神。

Due to the frequent famines and the government's incompetency about them in the late Qing dynasty, Hunan province was subjected to immoral incidents and socialunrest time and again, finally leading to mass uprising,which was composed of i) the refugees instinctively wresting for grains;ii) and later into farme peasant's uprising, iii) the unauthorized societies taking advantage of the occasion to start armed struggles;iv) the popular resistance to western religion arising from a pestilence.All these reflect the unyielding spirit of the people of Hunan region in their fight against imperialism and feudalism.