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Jilin Province Mining Policies and the Reorganization of Manchurian Frontier in Late Qing: An Analysis of Jiapigou and Sanxing

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2022, (33), pp.9~45
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..33.202204.9
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : March 28, 2022
  • Accepted : April 12, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

Song In Ju 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper clarifies the relation between the mining policy in Jilin(吉林) province and the reorganization of the Manchurian frontier in Late Qing period, 1860~1912. Jilin, the north-eastern frontier of the Qing empire, changed after 1860s due to, because Russian invasion and the Han Chinese illegal infiltration. The Qing dynasty began reforms aimed at to exploiting mines in Jilin province. Both the Jiapigou(夾⽪溝) and Sanxing(三姓) mines were crucial to the expansion of state power of Qing. In Jiapigou, the Qing government had to defend against ‘gold bandits(金匪)’ including the ‘Han Bianwai(韓邊外).’ From the 1880s, the Qing government embraced Han Bianwai society estabilishng Huadian province( 樺甸縣) in Jiapigou in 1910. In Sanxing, Qing empire had already estabilished rule over Tungusic native tribes including the Heje(赫哲), from the 17th century These tribes paid tribute to Qing empire with sable. However, after the Russian invasion in 1860s, these tribes broke away from the Qing, The Qing tried to recover state power in the downstream of Amur, which included Sanxing. Exploiting the mines became a crucial means of recapturing state power in Sanxing. The exploitation also helped develop a hunting economy into a mining market in the region. Through the above investigations of Jiapigou and Sanxing, this paper reveals the role mining policies can play in reestablishing state power and how such policies mattered during the Qing’s dominion in Manchurian frontier.

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