A Study Of The Culture Of Clean And Honest Administration In Qing Dynasty

The culture of incorrupt government is about people’s knowledge, faith, behavior code of the honest government and the according lift style, social evaluation. It is the objective reflection of the incorrupt governing on culture and concept.The Qing Dynasty inherited and developed the culture of traditional incorrupt government and enforce her own construction of it.In the ideas, the proposal of the thoughts of rule of virtue, self-cultivation and frugality, civilian-centralization, salary raise, hard work, balance of powers and education has directed the development of the incorrupt-government behavior and system.And the perfectness of the executive system, the salary, and supervising, employing, rewarding and punishing and legal systems is not only the reflection of the thought of incorrupt government on details, but also a good restriction to the public power practice. Moreover, the incorrupt government culture in literature, like poetry, couplets, folk songs and fictions, produced a trend of cultural infusion through the whole dynasty, thus makes it going to every corner of the society.The purpose of researching the culture of incorrupt government of the Qing Dynasty is not only to understand the trace of the political development and to find the inner causes of her decline, but also to provide historical experiences and references to the construction of the current honest government, which is believed to be very important in the current situation.