Bounded Domain, Changes In The Local Community

Restoration the changes in administrative divisions evolution as base, the research on the interactive relationship between changes of those administrative divisions in different periods and regions, and politics, economy, culture, ethnic groups and other social elements of local regions, has aroused concern among the academic circles. Comparatively speaking, it is still want of a comprehensive and thorough academic research on interactive process between administrative divisions changes and regional humanism factors of the upstream area of the Yellow River in Gan-Ning-Qing region. This paper takes the process of serial administrative divisions evolution in the upstream area of the Yellow River farming-pastoral zone during Ming and Qing Dynasty, and Republican Period as the main clue, to grasp the whole historcal vein of changes under the development of regional society. Taking the macroscopic vision case study method, and focusing on the "problems", respectively selecting various administrative divisions events make a deep and detailed investigation so as to discuss about the mutual relations of interaction and expression between boundary region changes and local communities in the special area of Upper Yellow River agriculture and pasture interlaced region.The concept of "Jieyu" involved in this paper, refers to the one related to historical administrative geography, and covers boundary and territory those two aspects of administrative regions. Boundary region changes mean the changes and adjustments in administrative divisions boundary or territory.As far as people are concerned, being as one of the most important elements of regional society, administrative division is the knot between the national system and local societies. Therefore, it can be taken as a key to further research on local societies."Microscopic region or society, and macroscopic history", this paper will start with changes of boundary region, do thoroughly historical surveys on the farming-pastoral zone of the Upper Yellow River in Ming and Qing Dynasty, and Republican Period in order to inquiry the special historical characteristics of this region's development, and explore the interactive relations between geographical environment, political process, and local community. On the whole, through the study on the evolution process of administrative divisions can help people to think about social construction of local communities within the framework of Northwest Frontier's historical evolution in the end of traditional societies, and vice versa.The change of administrative divisions is not only a sort of conscious act of state, but also the true expression and reflection of local communities' developing process.The changes of agriculture-pasture transition zone of the upstream of the Yellow River in Ming and Qing Dynasty, and Republican Period embodies the historical trajectory from the traditional society to the modern one of Northwest Frontier. In the above-mentioned historical trajectory, changes of boundaries show evolution of Northwest Frontier from many aspects about politics, economy, culture, such as the hinterland of the inter-frontier from politics, the growth and decline, and interaction of farming-pastoral zone from economy, the strengthening cognition between different ethnic groups from culture, the change and formation of population structure, and so on.From dynamic adjustment to static state of administrative regions, it has went through a succession of longitudinal inherit and horizontal varying development, a process of changes including time and space, which is look as a result from comprehensive action of politics, economy, culture, and other elements. To be more specific, changes of farming-pastoral zone of the Upper Yellow River in Ming and Qing Dynasty, and Republican Period including the interactive influences between environmental changes, administrative operations, district development, religious factors, ethnic groups relationship changes, cultural identity reinforcement and other ones, and show perpendicular and parallel interactive relations between states and local areas, and local areas themselves. However, because the dominant factors leading to administrative regions'changes are different, the researches on administrative regions'changes are various, which requires us to be fact-specific to enhance and enrich the knowledge of the research on the whole administrative regions'change mechanisms.It is a meaningful attempt and exploration to do research on regional societies while beginning with changes of administrative regions and boundaries. All in all, the paper is designed to help people better understand the brief historical changes of the agriculture-pasture transition zone of the upstream of the Yellow River in Ming and Qing Dynasty, and Republican Period, and further enrich the vision and content of historical political geography.