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Residing and reclamation: Relocation of the capital Eight Banners to the northeast during the Qing Dynasty

  • 중앙사론
  • 2017, (46), pp.511-537
  • Publisher : Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

허혜윤 1

1인천대학교

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ABSTRACT

During the early Qianlong reign, the livelihoods of the Eight Banners began to decline. To solve this problem, the Qing government used costly measures between the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, with little effect. During the height of the Qianlong reign, men of insight proposed that the people within the capital of the Eight Banners should be transplanted to the northeast, which was implemented during the final period of the Qing dynasty. Although the Qing government provided generous supported during the initial stage of resettlement, life of the capital Eight Banners became increasingly impoverished because the land did not respond well to Eight Banner subsistence techniques. As a result, the Qing government heavily invested in the implementations of various measures to maintain the livelihoods of the Bannerman who had relocated. These policies and government plans eventually failed but many Bannerman did leave their homes and adapted to relocation on their own terms. Although emigration policies were not successful, descendants of the Eight Banners thrived in the northeast, and the region was subsequently promoted as an area where merging of nationalities on a frontier was historically successful to incorporate borderlands into the larger nation. Thus, settlement eventually led to the rapid development of the relocated areas and promoted national integration.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.