Abstract: In the early Qing Dynasty, the gentry’s right was suppressed. In the following 200 years, the gentries in their hometown were adapted to the norms of state power, thus most of them can not arouse trouble among the local people. After the Taiping Movement started from Southeast China, in order to defend the territory, the local officials had to recruit soldiers and raise their provisions. All these things had to be done by the gentries, inevitably it brought about the rising of gentry’s right with the help of state power. In the following 50 years, the newly increased right of the gentries on the one hand cooperated with the government, on the other hand confronted with the government. With the pouring of Western Study trend and changing of traditional society, the old term of gentry’s right got its new significance.

Key words: Gentry’s Right in the Late Qing Dynasty, Historical Changes, Recruit Soldiers and Raise Their Provisions