Ming The Tibetan Areas In Qinghai's Policy Strategy Research

Qinghai is a district at where many nationalities lived since the ancient time, and it is the original place for northwest minority groups. In history, because of far away from the political, economical and cultural center of the country, governors of past dynasties always regarded Qinghai as barbaric and desolated area, and this situation changed from Yuan and Ming dynasties. In Yuan and Ming dynasties, Qinghai is the place through which the central government controlled Tibet, it is the only way from which Tibet communicated with central government on politics, economy and culture, it is the strategic bridgehead for controlling of Tibet by central government. Since Yuan and Ming dynasties, policy for Tibet was firstly carried out in Qinghai, and then gradually pushed into Tibet. The social situation and the local conditions and customs in Qinghai is a miniature of Tibet, because of its demonstration and influence to other places, the success or failure of policy on Tibet could be judged by the rise and decline of Qinghai, and the conclusion drew from history is that the flourish of Qinghai meant the flourish of the whole Tibetan, the social stability of Qinghai meant the social stability of the whole Tibetan.This dissertation has 6 chapters. Chapter one gives a syllabus introduction on the regionalism of Qinghai Tibetan and the spheres of influence at the end of Yuan Dynasty and at the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Chapter two discusses the policy of appointing national minority hereditary headman in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and expatiates the enfeoffments of Qinghai Tibetan chieftains and the management to chieftains in Ming Dynasty. Chapter three introduces the northwest garrison system, tells the setting up, jurisdiction area and function of garrisons in Qinghai district. Chapter four discusses the religious means used by Ming court to control local people. Chapter five expatiates the economic measures for which Ming court used to administrate Qinghai Tibetan. Chapter six probes into administrative policies carried out by Ming court from directions such as station troops, emigrating people to remote areas, cultural education and so on. In short, the administrative policies to Qinghai Tibetan district in Ming Dynasty were greatly important, for its success or failure concerned with the Ming court' s domination to northwest border areas and the administrative stability of Ming Dynasty.