Learn The Army Of The Social Changes And The Late Qing Dynasty

Intellectuals joined the army is a very striking phenomenon in late Qing Dynasty's social history. Before modern times, although military power was mastered in the governor's hands who were intellectuals, the concept of despising soldier was very common in intellectuals'mind. However, in modern society, when the national crisis became severer and severer, intellectuals integrated into the military gradually, to shoulder the heavy responsibility of defend the country and the nation. The phenomenon of intellectuals joined the army was outstanding in the times when the Taiping forces and Nian launched repression, the governor trained the navy and army. Namely, the learned gentleman lead and manage the military, cultivated the new technological person with ability in Navy and students joined up in New Army period. The learned gentleman acted as leader in the Huai military, they paid attention to the arrangement and training the battalion, at the same time, they transplanted country society into military. With all these efforts had made, the Xiang military and Huai military beat down the uprising of Taiping and Nian. The strong military power created a good condition for Tongzhi Restoration. After the elimination of civil strife, foreign aggression came one after another. So the building of modern naval became a top priority. In the process of Westernization Movement, a large number of new technical talents joined in the modern naval, who became the main force in Sino-French, Sino-Japanese war. After the Navy's collapse, the building of new land army started. First, it was managed in Zhili and Hubei province as experiment, and then it had been pushed to the rest provinces in China. A large number of graduates of military schools and students abroad joined the new army, which made the new army become a troop with higher cultural quality. So it can be said that the late Qing Dynasty's intellectual played an important role in Chinese military modernization. The intellectual joined the army not only improved the soldiers'quality, but also changed the military's image, reversing a"good man not a soldier"social orientation. More importantly, the intellect in army facilitated the army's political digression, and created a new historical situation in modern China.