Yunnan People Consumption Studies (1911-1949),

Human consumption activities goes hand in hand with the generation of human, is the oldest social activity and social behavior of human survival and development, research consumer significant self-evident. In order to deepen the awareness of the people of the Republic of China Yunnan public spending from a historical perspective, this paper attempts to probe its source recognized its process analysis due discern the differences, summarized some of the inherent laws and trends at the same time, the final outline this stage public consumption overall outlook of life, and hope this reflects a basic social change.This thesis consists of the next two.Articles including first, second, third chapter introduces the basic conditions of a variety of consumer information. Which is the most basic food, clothing and housing, each individual in order to survive, they must consume these survivability material consumption data, In addition to the general household but also entertainment, education, health care and consumer expenditure, especially at the most important juncture of his life, reflects society ethical weddings and funerals of the colors ceremony consumer spending can not be underestimated, at the same time there is a certain amount of superstition and poison (opium, gambling, narrow prostitutes) consumer society, which also need to concern.Next, including the fourth, fifth, sixth chapter. If the previous, bedding, and then the next is to play at the top of this analysis, explore and reveal deeper. The fourth chapter is the Republic of China Yunnan public consumption structure and consumption levels is estimated draw a lower level of consumption, consumption structure is irrational, through Multiple Indicator multifaceted investigation, ultimately occupy the vast majority of the total consumption expenditure, expenditure on food conclusions, which accounted for a the Yunnan population of most ordinary people consumer. In addition, in two survival by a large bureaucracy, warlords, landlords, the wealthy upper class in society and less from rural to the bottom of society to farmers or the urban poor, the fifth chapter they consumption differences, a high consumption patterns, excessive, extravagant splurge, the pursuit of enjoyment in all aspects; another head is serious shortage of consumer, under the poverty line, and to maintain the lowest survival showed consumption is very difficult. This difference caused by diverse factors, fueled by both natural disasters and the ravages of war, banditry and other social problems, more intrusive of all kinds of taxes, rent and usury, exploitation and income distribution uneven. Republic is a special period in the history of, leathery old cloth new society as a whole lot has changed, Chapter VI Consumer changes. In addition to the analysis of changes specific content and dynamic factors, this chapter also explores the regularity and characteristics that such consumption changes from economically developed areas to the propagation of backward areas, has experienced from the provincial capital-the local cities-surrounded township radiation mode, with top-to-bottom flow trend, where the upper social strata of consumption changes played a role in guiding the Republic of China is a sharp turning point in connecting the traditional and the modern, and thus many of the social consumption presented a the multivariate trend of Chinese and Western hybridity, the old and the new coexist development. For such consumption changes, we can not see the too heavy and too, because of its regional scope and range of groups is still relatively narrow, the same place is far greater than the changes in place, the same crowd is much larger than the change the crowd.In summary, the demonstration of the Republic of China Yunnan’s consumer life is less than ideal. As most part of the flesh and blood in the field of social composition, as the ideal window of perspective background of the times, the consumer situation reflects the basic outlook of the society at that time, in that one level of development of productive forces as a whole is not high, the scourge of war chaos, various burden has been increasing the period, such an outcome is inevitable.