Research On The Liangzhou Dudu Government In The Tang Dynasty

Dudu government in the Tang Dynasty, changing from the Header government in early stage of the Tang Dynasty, is an important unit of administrative divisions. At first, military function is the core function to Dudu government,who is the local senior administrative division and the highest military unit. In the middle and late days of the Tang Dynasty, Dudu government’s status changed as the country’s political unrest and the reset of defence system, its function and power were also affected accordingly. Because the northwest region was inhabited by the ethnic minorities in the Tang Dynasty, its safe or not closely concerned with the core regime’s stability of Tang Dynasty, and the core of the northwest region is Liangzhou in Hexi area. The east, west, north and south of Liangzhou were respectively central government of Tang Dynasty, the regime of western regions, minority tribes such as Tu Jue, the Tangut Qiang, Hu and so on, minority regimes such as Tibetan and so on, additionally, Liang-zhou was located in the important miliary regions, so Liangzhou Dudu government, the highest administrative organization, is particularly important in the researches of the ways to control and run local agencies in important frontier areas in the Tang Dynasty.Liangzhou Dudu government in the Tang Dynasty changes from intermediate administrative unite, high-grade administrative unite to intermediate administrative unite, The variation is existed with the political situation in the Tang Dynasty. The central government stablished Hexi area by improving Liangzhou Dudu government’s grade and sending the royals and first-class ministers to be Liangzhou Dudu, building power ultimately. Liangzhou Dudu government existed with the Tang Dynasty, coperating and co-developing.The purpose of this thiese are familiar with the changes and understanding the setting conditions of administration organization system of Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and analysis of functions and government assistants system and investigating deeply chief executives’backgrounds and positions’changes of Liang-zhou Dudu government in the Tang Dynasty are essential to know Liangzhou Dudu government completely and understand the local governance system and policies, especially in the important frontier areas in the Tang Dynasty, Then come to a conclusion on relationships between central government and every local government by researches above.The first chapter analyzes the administrative divisions of Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty definitely. Verifying the geographical range of ancient Liangzhou and recovering the generations’ administration organization systems of Liangzhou before the Tang Dynasty. From the above review, know the regional outline of Liangzhou and controlled administrative unites’ abandoned and reset profiles of Liangzhou well.Chapter2is a lateral combing of administrative agencies setted in Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and an analysis of significance of Liangzhou in Hexi area on military affairs and politics. The analysis begins with Liang Zhou Header government and Liang Zhou Dudu government, then traces Ci Shi administrative agency unite related closely with Dudu government, extends Hexi Jie Dushi, regime of Gui Yijun and Liangzhou Jie Dushi having relationships with Dudu government’s ultimate fate. Eventually, shows the importance of Liangzhou area by proving the necessity and particularity of every administrative agency setted in Liangzhou.Chapter3is to draw a conclusion that central regime payed lots of attentions to the political appointees of Liangzhou Dudu government by analyzing administrator’s backgrounds, office experiences and additional posts. Moreover, by analyzing administrators’ particular status, this chapter shows the close relations between situation of Liangzhou and overall situation of Tang Dynasty at that time.The fourth chapter proves that there are three kinds of relationships between Liangzhou Dudu government and central regime on the research above. The relationships are related closely with political strategies to northwest, Zhenguan Reign Period and An-Shi Rebellion.