民间商人组织与清代湖南城市管理

清代的湖南城市经济发达,人口繁多,对城市管理提出了更高的要求,但政府对城市的管理远远落后于城市的发展。在这种情况下,会馆、公所等城市民间商人组织就承担了城市经济、社会管理、公益事业的等多方面职能。清代湖南城市民间商人组织承担城市管理之职能,对今天的城市管理创新有重要的借鉴作用:政府应扶助城市民间组织的发展,民间组织应主动适应社会以担当城市管理的重任,充分发挥在城市管理中的作用

Folk Merchant Organization and Hunan City Management in Qing Dynasty

In the Qing Dynasty （1644-1911） Hunan Cities with economic development and population variety, which had inevitably been put forward higher requirements to the city management. In this case the guild hall, folk merchant organization assumed a lot of functions such as the city economy, social management, and many other functions. In the Qing Dynasty the city folk merchant organizations of Hunan cities assumed the functions of city management which undoubtedly is of an important reference to current city management innovation.