From"Burying Stones to Set Rules"to"Government Issues a Notice by Erecting a Monument":The Changes of the Rural Social Governance System in the Southeast Guizhou in the Qing Dynasty
During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty,with the implementation of"Governing Miaojiang",the rural society of southeastern Guizhou,which was originally"Unaffiliated"and"Unconstrained",gradually fell into the"Landscape"of"Edification by Emperor".The establishment of the"Six Offices in Xinjiang"and the implementation of"Registering Households and the People"have led to the infiltration of state power into grassroots governance in rural areas.In the process of interaction and negotiation between the central government and the rural society of southeast Guizhou,the governance method has gradually evolved from the self-governance based on"Burying Stones to Set Rules"(栽岩议事)to the state governance based on"Government Issues a Notice by Erecting a Monument"(府示立碑).The state governance did not completely replace self-governance,but presented a situation of coexistence between state governance and rural self-governance.Ethnic interaction,exchange and integration deepened.Taking Guzhou Department in the Qing Dynasty as a case,this paper explores the historical process of the change of social governance in the southeast Guizhou in the Qing Dynasty.
Burying Stones to Set RulesGovernment Issues a Notice by Erecting a MonumentSoutheast Guizhou in Qing DynastyRural Governance Change