Analysis on the Formation and Operation of a New Folk Relief System --- Taking the Flood Relief in Zhejiang Province in 1922 as an Example

Abstract

The flood in Zhejiang in 1922 led to numbers of disaster victims. In the case of insufficient government relief, non-governmental organizations had become the main force in disaster relief, and in the process of disaster relief, a new model had gradually formed with relief fundraising as the core and various small and medium-sized organizations united around it. Under this model, the disaster relief process and results showed many different characteristics from the past and set a typical model for future charitable relief movements.