On the Practice of Jiebu Officials:A New Type of Official Position in the Southern Song Dynasty
The practice of Jiebu officials,appearing during the war period at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty,was a kind of expedient system in which some"white"posts were offered by the generals and commanders of the ar-mies or the supervisors and county guards to make up the officials for the meritorious people temporarily.Those who joined the government officials were mainly civilians and low-ranking officers,promoted through the special way in the wartime.The practice of Jiebu officials,though only a"temporary"official position,contained a set of relatively standardized procedures for the award of the official and strict payment of the body of the document provisions.It turned out a certain correlation between Jiebu officials being customized and the special"wartime state"in the Southern Song Dynasty.
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