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Rethinking Qing Manchuria's Prohibition Policies.
- Source :
- Journal of Chinese History; Jul2021, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p245-262, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Historians hold that to preserve the Manchu homeland the Qing court instituted a "policy of prohibition" (Ch: fengjin zhengce), forbidding Han immigrants from settling in the region until the final decades of its rule. Using Manchu-language archives from the garrison of Hunčun (Ch: Hunchun), this article questions whether such a prohibition guided local governance. In some jurisdictions in Manchuria, including in Hunčun, the Qing state did not always have an overarching policy towards Han migrants. Migration, in fact, was often less of a concern to the state than poaching. We can reassess the history of Manchuria accordingly. Modern historians have been preoccupied with the coming of Han migrants to Qing Manchuria; the Qing government in Hunčun was not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POACHING
HISTORIANS
JURISDICTION
MILITARY bases
IMMIGRANTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20591632
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Chinese History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151348920
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.52