The Occasion Of The Jin And Yuan North China Local Administration To Build

This essay dwells on the historical vicissitude of Northern Cathay's local administrative regionalization, or the establishment and division of different Prefecture, Subprefecture and District, with its main focus on the radical changes of the local administrative regionalization in this area during roughly 60 years (1210s-1270s), between the Mongolians' conquest of the area south of Yellow River and the early years of the Yuan Dynasty established by Khublai Khan.The most significant content in this essay is its analysis based on textual research and clarification of the regional division on all levels in the Central Area mentioned in the Volume of Historical Geography, which is Volume 58 of The History of the Yuan Dynasty.Based on the textual research of the Volume of Historical Geography, of The History of the Yuan Dynasty, the essay also discussed three related topics, namely, the evolution of administration system with its elementary units of Subprefecture, the formation of the Central Area and the changes of its regional division in the Central Area.After scrutinizing the messy Subprefecture division of Northern Cathay in the late Jurchen-Jin Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty and the negative impact on the political institutions of the area south of Yellow River induced by Mongolian's nomadic system, the author outlines the historical truth and provides historical reasoning for the change of the classification system of Subprefecture under the system of Military Commission. The essay concludes that with the gradual formation of the system of Prefecture as well as the formation of a unique Yuan military system of garrisoning and guarding towns, the classification system of Subprefecture under the system of Military Commission began to decline, which brought significant influence to the Subprefecture system of the Yuan Dynasty, even furthered its influence to the successive Ming and Qing Dynasty. In the late Jurchen-Jin Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty appeared the phenomenon of Ten Circuits(or Ten Prefectures) and its sequences, which the essay carried a detailed research on the historical evolution of this para-province regionalization of a quality similar to fiscal division. Moreover, the essay proposes that the melt-down of this Ten Circuits( or Ten Prefectures) system in the early Yuan Dynasty actually provided some traces for the historical process of the formation of the so-called Central Area. In the late Jurchen-Jin Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty, some Han hereditary peerages are extremely prominent, whose occupation and governing of some Subprefectures and Districts as their territory greatly affected the formation of Prefectures and Direct Administrative Subprefectures in Northern Cathay. The essay illustrates this historical fact by analyzing two typical territories of Han hereditary peerages and their changes in the years of the Administrative unit divided (画境之制) in the 8^th year of Okodei Qhan.