Space and Place in Administrative Military Regulations of Qing China: An Evaluation of the Legal Type of Zeli
The present article analyses three sets of regulations for military administration during the high Qing period. They belong to the genre of zeli, a type of regulations largely neglected by modern scholars. The first part of this paper therefore defines the genre and describes its features. In the se...
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| Опубликовано в: : | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient, |
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Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident
2016
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| Итог: | The present article analyses three sets of regulations for military administration during the high Qing period. They belong to the genre of zeli, a type of regulations largely neglected by modern scholars. The first part of this paper therefore defines the genre and describes its features. In the second part, the War Supplies and Expenditure Regulations (Junxu zeli) are discussed, and in the third the Weapons and Military Equipment Regulations (Junqi zeli) of the Ministry of War and that of the Ministry of Works. It will be shown that superficially all three provided clear and detailed rules for a wide range of aspects of military administration and organization. Space and place played important roles in the instructions (e.g. where troops were marching to, or where a garrison was located). Yet in practice, they allowed sufficient leeway to adapt to local conditions and permitted a great measure of autonomy. The reason was that all three codes mainly aimed at cutting expenditure, not at unifying the armament or equipment. The failure of unifying the equipment and modernizing the regulations in the early 19th century had fatal consequences. |
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