The Governance of New Territories During the Qin Unification.
This paper uses recently discovered administrative and legal manuscripts to investigate the governance of newly conquered territories during the Qin unification, with the aim of examining Qin's governing intentions and strategies, which were inextricably interwoven with its swift territorial expansi...
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2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=157321166&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 157321166 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00825433 C64 jtl: T'oung Pao issn: 00825433 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2022 vid: 108 iid: 1/2 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 157321166 10.1163/15685322-10801003 ppf: 1 ppct: 35 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.6MB tig: atl: The Governance of New Territories During the Qin Unification. aug: au: Li, Jingrong affil: Hunan University, China, Changsha su: Manuscripts Qin dynasty, China, 221-207 B.C. Pragmatics General semantics Philosophy of language Criminals sug: subj: Manuscripts Qin dynasty, China, 221-207 B.C. Pragmatics General semantics Philosophy of language Criminals keyword: conquest governance Liye new territories Qin unification Yuelu ab: This paper uses recently discovered administrative and legal manuscripts to investigate the governance of newly conquered territories during the Qin unification, with the aim of examining Qin's governing intentions and strategies, which were inextricably interwoven with its swift territorial expansion. The manuscripts demonstrate that the new territories experienced instability and crisis and that Qin had to address various administrative problems to achieve successful governance. The paper explores the flexible, pragmatic policies that Qin devised and adopted to suit the specific social and political circumstances of the new territories. These policies included the removal of native Qin people, laborers, criminals, soldiers, and officials from the old lands to the new lands, preferential and tolerant treatment of the new population, and enactment of laws made specifically for the new territories. The paper shows that although the Qin central government successfully imposed its own administrative system in the new territories with some compromises, there remained a considerable number of unstable and treacherous elements. Résumé: Cet article utilise des manuscrits administratifs et juridiques récemment découverts pour étudier la gouvernance des territoires nouvellement conquis pendant l' unification par les Qin, dans le but d' examiner les projets et les stratégies de gouvernance des Qin, qui étaient inextricablement liées à leur rapide expansion territoriale. Les manuscrits démontrent que les nouveaux territoires ont connu instabilité et crises et que les Qin ont dû résoudre divers problèmes administratifs pour les gouverner. L' article explore les politiques flexibles et pragmatiques que les Qin ont conçues et adoptées pour s' adapter aux circonstances sociales et politiques des nouveaux territoires. Ces politiques comprennent le déplacement d' anciens sujets des Qin, des ouvriers, des criminels, des soldats et des fonctionnaires, des anciens territoires vers les nouveaux, un traitement préférentiel et tolérant des nouvelles populations et la promulgation de lois spécifiques aux nouveaux territoires. L' article montre que, bien que le gouvernement central des Qin ait réussi, avec quelques compromis, à imposer son propre système administratif dans les nouveaux territoires, il restait un nombre considérable d' éléments instables et risqués. 摘要: 運用新近發現的行政與法律寫本文獻材料，本文研究了統一進程中秦對新地的統治，其目的在於揭示與秦新地軍事征服密切聯繫的新地統治意圖和策略。由寫本文獻材料來看，因新地社會秩序不穩且危機四伏，秦需解決各種問題以順利統治新地。針對新地特殊的社會與政治情況，秦製訂和採用了變通與務實的統治政策。這些政策包括：將秦故地的百姓、勞徒、罪犯、士卒及官吏遷移至新地，以寬容與優待的方式對待新黔首，頒布並實施專門適用於新地的法律。由本文研究來看，秦中央政府雖然作出了一定程度的妥協以在新地成功建立其行政統治，但是不穩定與危險的諸多因素依然存在於新地。 pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of T'oung Pao is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: T'oung Pao holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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