长期以来人们对苏北由富庶到衰败的历史变化研究甚少,汪汉忠的《灾害.社会与现代化——以苏北民国时期为中心的考察》进行了开创性的探索。该著作不仅以新的视野研究了苏北地区兴衰的地方史而且通过当时社会救济、灾荒防治等政策的研究使社会史学研究有了新的面貌,即灾害对社会发展和社会心理的影响,政府及社会的灾荒政策问题,都有精到的描述与分析。 For a long time, there have been few studies on the historical changes of prosperity and decay in northern Jiangsu Province. Wang Hanzhong’s pioneering exploration of “Disaster, Society and Modernization - An Investigation Centering on the Northern Jiangsu Republic Period”. The book not only studies the local history of the rise and fall of northern Jiangsu with a new field of vision but also makes a new appearance in the study of social history through the research on social relief and disaster prevention and control policies at the time. That is, the impact of disasters on social development and social psychology, And social famine policy issues, have a fine description and analysis.