The ideological development within Gaos family in Jinshan at the end of the Qing Dynasty characterized how the big families of intelligentsia in the Jiangnan Region responded to tumultuous his-torical changes at that time. The great social changes,especially the abolishment of Keju system,pre-vented people of those families from following the traditional way of career development and thus forced them to turn to new cultural ideals. Members of Gaos family,who had embraced the idea of social re-form in the 1898 Reform Movement led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao,joined the force to topple the Qing Government. They started a family monthly journal of Juemin (literally awakening people) and established a connection with the forces against Qing Government in Shanghai through this maga-zine. In addition to the journal,Gaos family also set up Hanyin Association,blazing a trail for the es-tablishment of the revolutionary Nanshe Association. In this sense,the study of Gaos family is an ef-fective way to explore the relationship between great families and the development of key social com-munities.%高氏家族内部的思想调整,典型地体现出在清末激荡的时代风潮下,江南文化家族对历史变革的积极呼应。时局的巨变,科举的中断,使得世族门第无法按照原有的科举仕进的道路发展,而寄托于新的文化理想。高氏子弟在清末的戊戌维新风潮中曾经抱有某种改良愿望,然而随着时代风潮他们逐渐汇聚到反清革命洪流中。他们以家族的组织形态编辑了《觉民》月刊,并且以此为桥梁建立起与沪上反清群体的关联。该家族还创立了寒隐社,开南社文人革命之先声。在家族与社团关系研究中,高氏家族在清末无疑是一个极好的样本。
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