民国期上海の都市社会と慈善事業
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概要
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Republican (minkuo 民国) Shanghal was a city of continuous expansion with a rapidly growing population. It was also a city in which social welfare services were provided by nongovernmental voluntary associations under the leadership of local elites. Corresponding to the expansion of the city, many philanthropic associations were founded and be came active during the republican era. In order to relieve the poor and ease social discontent, food and clothing were supplied, funerals were performed, and livelihoods protected. The homeless ware accommodated and educated, unidentified corpses were buried, charitable schools were opened, all in order to maintain public health, peace and order. These nongovernmental philanthropies in republican Shanghai were active on a considerable scale and supported the stability and the development of this expanding modern city. Under the Headership of local elites, particularly the bourgeoisie, Shanghai not only had the economic where withal to afford nongovernmental social welfare services but also had motivation and organizing capability to support them. The motivation by which local elites resorted to such philanthropy stemed from "publicity" and the "public interests of the local community". These ideas were new values formed in modern Shanghai, where Confucian values of pre-modern China clashed with Christian humanism introduced from the West with the reality of the expanding urban society as background. Social welfare services in Shanshai were practiced not only by individual philanthropic associations, but also by networks formed among them. This reveale that urban utilities were based on nongovernmental networks in local society, and managed by autonomous local elites. Here, we can see an aspect of the formation and maturity of urban "society" in modern China.
- 財団法人史学会の論文
- 1994-09-20