On the crisis response of school-owned fields in the late Qing Dynasty

Abstract：For the school-owned field crisis in the late Qing Dynasty, the government had taken three measures. One is to advise to buy more fields, mainly implemented in Sichuan. The second is to investigate the crime cases concerning school-owned fields, including the illegal occupying and field disputes, the large number of which reflects the efforts Qing government had made. The third one is field allocation and field serving as education funds. Field allocation means the allocation of new land as school-owned field, or the allocation of income from school-owned fields as education funds; field serving as education funds means that the original field was taken as a new school funding, so as to avoid the loss of resources. It seems that the countermeasures taken by the Qing government were appropriate, but ineffective. The crisis still existed during the period of the Republic of China.

Keyword：school-owned field;late Qing Dynasty;crisis response;