Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2011, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 63-71.

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The Development Space of Mass Organizations and Its Limitation in the Late Qing Dynasty 
——A Focus on Shanghai

FANG Ping   

  • Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-10-12
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Abstract: In the last decade of the Qing Dynasty there emerged various newstyle social organizations in Shanghai with a general elevation of social members’ “sociable” consciousness.These mass organizations had their different missions, but they tended to “maintain public good” and organized varied activities to develop their own ideas and influences. Consequently, they expanded the urban public life and effected reorganizations of local society. Owing to some subjective and objective factors, these nongovernment social organizations were limited in their development space.