閩西上杭人傅柏翠，一位顯赫一時的民國時期農村地方強人。他早年崇尚孫中山的革命思想，後又成為社會主義的信徒。他允文允武，曾籌辦民團捍衛鄉里，也曾擔任律師，為鄉民仗義執言。第一次國共分裂後，傅被迫走上共產革命之途。1931 年，傅脫離共黨，以一位左翼份子、地方領袖的身份，繼續活躍於閩西社會，致力於地方農村改革。國民黨當局恐怕傅尾大不掉，中共方面也批評他，但傅卻在國共兩方間捭闔縱橫，獲得夾縫間的生存，並逐漸發展自身勢力，成為閩西地區勢力最龐大的地方強人，直到1949 年再投入共產黨的懷抱為止。本文將透過1949 年以前傅柏翠個人歷史的重構，試圖闡明民國時期農村地方強人的多重面向。

Fu Bai-cui, a Hakka from Shanghang County in Minxi region,was a multi-faceted local rural elite during the period of theRepublican China. His rise to prominence was attributed to hispower, wealth, and exercise of local Hakka cultural andinterpersonal network. Besides, Fu was a revolutionary intellectualand a disciple of Sun Yat-sen at the very beginning, and then hewas forced to participate in the communist revolution. Beingexcommunicated by the Chinese Communist Party in 1931,however, Fu maintained a left-wing local elite and insisted in ruralreform until 1949, when he rejoined the CCP. This article tries toreconstruct the history of Fu Bai-cui and explore themultidimensional characters of local rural elites during the periodof the Republican China.