Reconstructing Local Communities in Transitional Borderlands: Governance and Social Organization of the Kumar Route, 1900—1940

Abstract

<p>This article examines the continuity in some aspects of governance and social organization that emerged during the Qing dynasty (1644—1912) and their replacement by other systems in northeastern China. To this end, records of leadership in the Kumar Route (Kuma’er lu) in Heilongjiang from 1900 to 1940, when local institutions evolved from banner- and clan-based structures, are analyzed. In doing so, it supports the assumption that the history of China’s northeastern borderland peoples during the first four decades of the twentieth century needs to be critically examined in order to move beyond narratives that emphasize ethnicity and nationalism as the primary factors that shaped the identity of the non-Han peoples of this borderland region during this period.</p>

本文通过分析从1900 年八旗和宗族制度发展至1940 年作为村级政治和社会机构的黑龙江库玛尔路的领导记录，研究清朝(1644—1912）期间建立的制度被中国东北的其他制度所取代后管治和社会组织呈现的连续性。本案例研究以明确具体的证据加深我们对这一时期的一般理解，并表明必须批判性地审视20 世纪头40年中国东北边疆民族的历史，以超越强调民族（ethnicityb）和民族主义（nationalism）为塑造这一时期边疆地区非汉族身份的主要因素之相关叙 述。