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Modern Chinese History Studies

No. 6, 2020

Everyday Affairs and Life World of an Educational Administrator in Late Qing: A Study on Lu
Baozhong9s Diary in His Tenure as Educational Administrator of Hunan ……Li Xfc加⑷
From the eleventh to the fourteenth year of the Guangxu Reign (1885 -1888) , Lu Baozhong, the educational administrator
of Hunan province, left a fairly complete diary, in which he recorded his everyday practice related to local educational affairs,
his negotiation and bargaining with local gentry, and his social network and life condition during his tenure. This diary reveals
the multiple facets of everyday affairs and life world of an ordinary provincial educational administrator. Lu Baozhongs three-year
tenure in Hunan did not leave too much impact on the history of education in late Qing Hunaru However, such an ordinary
official as Lu Baozhong kept the normal functioning of the bureaucratic system in the late Qing period and ensured all the policies
of the Qing government regarding culture and education to be publicized and implemented at the local level, so as to construct the
basic structure and dynamics of the everyday governance of the traditional state.

Finance and Administration of the Plague Prevention in Late Qing Northeast China
.................................................................. ...................................................................... Du Lihong(23)
The great plague that broke out in Northeast China in 1910 caused enormous panic in the government and the society.
Although the central government gave the local government plenty of political pressure, it did not provide much financial
support. The funding for the plague prevention largely came from the local government. Xiliang, the general-governor of the
three northeast provinces, played an essential role in dealing with the financial issues of the plague prevention. He requested
funding from the Grand Council and the Board of Finance in the central government, distributed funds to subordinated
prefectures and countries, and supervised fund-raising and expenditure of funds. The plague prevention in Northeast China
was an unprecedented administrative project that required modem public health facilities instead of merely providing medicine
to curb epidemics, a measure often implemented in traditional China. The local government had to devote more money to this
project to make up the weakness in the public health administration. It spent most of the fund in building infrastructures such
as hospitals and plague prevention clinics, hiring doctors and sanitary police, purchasing medicine, and so on.

A Study on the Personal Relationship among Participants of Rural Land Trade in Modern North
China: An Empirical Analysis Based the Land Contracts of Weizhuang Village
............................................................................................. Jiang Xiuxian(39)
Interpersonal relationship had impact on land trade, but the impact in North China was different from that in South
China. In South China such as Huizhou, land trade was mainly between people inside the same lineage, while in North
China small peasants tended to trade land with ones in different lineages and each transaction had its unique situation
depending on participants，villages and lineages. Moreover, in North China, it was relatively difficult to close a transaction
of land trade, no matter purchasing or selling. In most of the cases, the participation of a third party in land trde was
random. Both the buyer and seller had no strong preference regarding to the social condition of the third party, such as
family ties and social prestige. The general understanding of land trade based on the empirical research in South China
cannot fully explain land trade in North China. The complicated role that the third party played in land trade in South China
was seldom seen in North China, where both buyers and sellers normally had clear perception of themselves and the
opposite party.

From the Protest against Tax Increase to the Political Participation: The Relationship between
Foreign and Chinese Residents of the International Settlement of Shanghai in the Early Stage
of the Nanjing Nationalist Government …… …Wei Bingbing(55)
Soon after the Nanjing Nationalist government was established in 1927, the Chinese associations in the International
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