The Study On Charity And Social Relief In Modern Jinan (1840-1949)

The late Qing Dynasty, Jinan charity career is still the traditionalcharity, into the Republic of China, with the changing times and theemergence of foreigners’charity set up in Jinan, Jinan charity career haschanged. In general, Jinan charity career in the Opium War had slowlytendency to transformation to a modern type of philanthropy. Althoughthis change is relatively weak, the impact to the Jinan society should notbe underestimated.Jinan’s special geographical and meteorological characteristics makeJinan meteorological disasters, the losses caused, coupled with foreignvictims, refugees, charity becomes particularly important. Relief to thelate Qing Dynasty government promulgated policies, commercial andindustrial development and the enhancement of the relief force, Jinancharity developed.The Qing Court in the late Qing Dynasty, Jinan charitable reliefactivities play a dominant role, especially in disaster relief activities,relief models, and allocation of relief food from the decision-making tothe specific arrangements, free from taxes Juan are all implementing thecourtwill. Number of charitable organizations, although still relatively limited, but has begun showing a growth trend. Traditional warehousingand Yang Ji hospital, Lifeline Church, foundling in the Famine Relief inthe late Qing Dynasty, Jinan has played an important role.Republic of China due to successive years of war, political turmoil,the environment of relief has also changed. This period, many charitableorganizations were set up in Jinan, charitable institution, both the lateQing Dynasty continuation has also set up many poorhouses, charitableorganizations of the poor factory with modern features. These charitableorganizations actively involved in relief, is an important force that can notbe ignored in the entire charity system. Republic of China Jinan occurredmany disasters, article is mostly about the relief of the Jinan Massacre in1928, 1935 the Luxi victims of relief, as well as the late 1940s, refugeerelief, for example, the relief activities in the Republic of China Jinan.In charity cause, in addition to the relief of the official government,non-governmental charitable force has also played an important role inModern Jinan, social and charitable relief forces including the charitablecharacter of the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of charitable characterand power of the church and western China forces. The convergence ofthese social forces playing an important role in the charity is an importantforce to promote the positive development of private philanthropy.Charity career in modern Jinan, accompanied by the transformationof urban modernization process, plays their upbringing, enlightenment, social control, to promote the smooth running of society functions withdistinctive features in the breadth of participants, diversity of theprocesscontains valuable historic, but with the imprint of the times.Looking at the modern Jinan cause of charity, we should see agovernment organization and coordination of capacity and efficiencyessential to famine relief, and they should play the functions ofgovernment and civil relief to establish a set of strict specifications.Develop production and promote economic development is thefundamental way to solve the issues of social weak rescue.