The Transportation Geography And Reconstruction Of Ethnic Relations In Qian Dongnan Area During Qing Dynasty

In the history of China, the Chinese government still believed that it is difficultto control the southeast of Guizhou Province. In order to let the region under effectivecontrol of the grovernment, Qing Dynasty made many different kinds of policies there,such as changing tribal authorities to regular officials, developing the transport,establishing cities and immigrating. These policies successfully made the region aspart of China, but still impacted and recombined the ethnic minorities’distributionpattern of the region and ethnic relations in political, economic, and cultural. Thisthesis will be divided into four chapters.The first chapter is generally about the historical evolution, the naturalenvironment, the traffic and the distribution of China’s ethnic minorities before thebureaucratization of native officers in southwest of Guizhou province. In this period,limited by special natural and geographical conditions, the Han is mainly distributedin the north of the Qing River region; the ethnic minorities are distributed in the southof the Qing River region independently.The second chapter will introduce the transportation development in thesouthwest Guizhou province after the bureaucratization of native officers. In thisperiod, the transportation improvement was enhanced and rapidly developed, the Hanpopulation has grown in strength and the center of the tower was raised.The third chapter will introduce the ethnic minorities’distribution andinter-ethnic relations between different ethnic minorities after the policy of thebureaucratization of native officers. In this period, because of the transportdevelopment, There was a huge migration of the Han into the south of the Qing riverwhich is a region inhabited by the Miao and the Dong. The Han’s immigration causedthe distribution of the Miao diffused and the Dong had to move to the east and thesouth. Ethnic relations between the approaches and styles, all have their owncharacteristics.The fourth Chapter will introduce the new transportation network on the nationalpolitical relations, economic and cultural relations. Politically, the transport development and the impact of national strength, making the region the originalethnic minorities, lacked of the "national" consciousness, into the national system.Economically, the transport broke the original self-sufficient economy of the variousethnic groups in the region, commodity economy developed in varying degrees.Cultural, ethnic minority costumes, language, traditional festivals, architecture, andlast name and so on continued to impact.