Study Of Modern Chinese Society Philanthropist Groups

The social pliilanthropist group in modern China is the result of special history conditions of modern China. It creates a new situation of Chinese charities,remedies the defect of the social relief function of the government and promotes the development of modern society. This article is divided into four parts to study it.The first part expounds the reasons for the appearance of the social philanthropist group in modem china. As a kind of social phenomenon, the modern social philanthropist group is the result of joint function of various forces, including successive calamities and famine, corrupt politics, impoverished economy and nutrition of the traditional culture.The second part concentrates on the philanthropy of the modern social philanthropist group and its characters. The philanthropy of the modern social philanthropist group mostly consists of relieving the people in stricken ereas,giving first-aid to the wounded in the war and philanthropic education, which embodies the characters comprising wide range, rich content and original style compared with the traditional philanthropy.The third part elaborates the philanthropic ideas of the modern social philanthropist group. The basic directive ideas that the modern social philanthropist group handles the charity are made up of amalgamating the relief of the government with that of the folk,giving support and education in the meantime and substituting labor for relief.The fourth part analyses the effect that the modern social philanthropist group had on the modern society. The modern social philanthropist group has certain contribution to the modernization of the traditional charities,the enhancement of the cohesion of the Chinese nation,the development of the modern education, the relative stability of the modern society and the protection of social productive forces.