The Chinese Empire in Local Society: Ming Military Institutions and Their Legacy

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This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society. It is based on extensive original research by scholars using the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach that has transformed the study of Chinese history by approaching the subject from the bottom up. Its nine chapters, each based on a different region of China, examine the nature of Ming military institutions and their interaction with local social life over time. Several chapters consider the distinctive role of imperial institutions in frontier areas and how they interacted with and affected non-Han ethnic groups and ethnic identity. Others discuss the long-term legacy of Ming military institutions, especially across the dynastic divide from Ming to Qing (1644-1912) and the implications of this for understanding more fully the nature of the Qing rule. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of contents Maps Contributors Acknowledgments 1 State institutions, local society, and historical continuity: Ming military institutions from the perspective of ... Notes 2 The social impact of changing patterns of military recruitment and logistics in Yongzhou, Hunan The establishment of Taochuan Battalion and the institutional decline of the military “Paying taxes to both the county and the Battalion” Killers (shashou) in the Barracks system, and encouragement of permanent settlement Guarding the mountain passes and the Barracks system Conclusion Notes 3 Military colonies and localization in Yongchun, Fujian The military colonies of Yongchun and their soldiers Colony lineages “enter lijia registration” The Taiping Li The Dapu Lin The Tang of Dali Marriage networks of colony lineages Colony lineages and local public affairs Conclusions Notes 4 The evolution of temples in Jinxiang Guard and the localization of state institutions The rise and fall of the Military Banner (Qidao) temple and the gradual abandonment of the imperial military ritual canon The establishment of the Guard Daoist temple and the transmission of local Daoist sects The spread of the cult to Duke Yan and the integration of coastal populations The construction of Old Man Yang auxiliary temples and the militarization of a local deity Conclusions Notes 5 State and local society in the reform of the garrison system in the Qing Dynasty: A case study of Yuzhou Guard Social unrest in the mid- and late Ming and the structure of local power The Li lineage and the dispute over integration of the subprefecture and the Guard during the Ming-Qing transition Converting the Guard to a county and the disputes over the integration of the subprefecture and the Guard during the early Qing Cultural activities in Yuxian County and the eventual integration of the subprefecture and the county Conclusion Notes 6 Where are the Western Aborigines?: Ningfan Guard and the transformation of local society in southwestern Sichuan in ... Garrison, household registration, and Xifan-Han relations Private soldiers, family servants, and Han surnames Surveying military colony fields, compiling genealogies, and status transformation The garrison military households’ role in shaping frontier society and the significance of the Ming-Qing state Notes 7 The Green Shoots Crop Protection Associations of Taozhou, Gansu: Ming identities/Qing histories Introduction Social change sparked by the dissolution of the Guard and its conversion into a subprefecture Community formation and land disputes Han-Fan disputes and community formation Hui rebellion and local power organization Conclusion Notes 8 The “civilianization” of military colonies and the reorganization of military households: Ningxi Battalion and the ... Land and household registration in the history of the garrison system The common trajectory of tax and corvee reform in early Qing southern China Contractual colony households (hetong tunhu) and land reclamation Qing military colony reform and its political and social significance Notes 9 Military lineages and the Qing tribute grain system: The “Xie/Chen/Liao Barge” of Ganzhou Guard, Jiangxi Introduction: Tribute grain military households and imperial governance The “Xie-Chen-Liao Barge” The reorganization of the tribute grain barge system in the early Qing and the restructuring of the tribute grain soldiers Military household lineages and tribute grain communities Conclusion: Tribute grain and the Qing “integration breakthrough” Notes 10 The tribute grain system, military colony lands, and transport soldier lineages in Ming and Qing: The case of ... The inheritance: The evolution of the Ming garrison military household Tasks of the garrison soldiers and reorganization in the early Qing Military corvee, colony fields, and lineage formation Disputes over tribute grain transportation Conclusions Notes Appendix I: Ming and Qing reign periods Appendix II: Ming weights and measures Appendix III: Glossary and character list References Archives Gazetteers Genealogies Inscriptions Other primary sources Secondary sources Index