1644-1911 County Runner Research

The thesis try to study county runners of the Qing dynasty and to analyse their political acts as a framework, while absorbing political psychology, management theory and methods, focused on the active role of runners in the administration of justice. In addition, the paper try to discuss the consistency and betrayal of county runner in their minds and political acts and the objective factors that constraints runners' psychology activities. The exposition is divided into five parts. The first part was prolegomenon, introducing in this part the research synthesis on county runners of the Qing dynasty, the selection and the impotantance of the subject, the information used in the article, the structure and the main content, terminology and research methods, and difficulty and inadequatace, etc. The second part was the profiles of the Qing dynasty county runners and introduced the origin of runners, the types, functions of the Qing dynasty county runner, the procedures of division of labour and defects in division, and their service requirements and deadlines. the county runners of Qing dynasty is divided into Zhengyi, Baiyi, Guaming Chaiyi, etc. In functions section, highlighted the responsibilities of Ma Kuai, Buyi, Jincu and Wuzuo,and just simply introduced the duties of. other types. On division procedures of the 1644-1911 county runners, there was often some procedure when tasks were assigned to the runners. This division of labour is often changing when things change. As responsibilities were unclear sometimes, it would be easy to escape the law and bid or prevarication disputes often occur. The third part was the revenue sources of county runners of Qing dynasty. Its content are as follows: First, the legal...