“改土归流”:土司家族政治命运的转型

长期以来,学界习惯于把改土归流作为土司制度的落幕戏加以研究,但若细心查核改土归流后的当地史料,却总能发现被罢废土司的后裔们可以长期在当地担任各种行政要职,对当地的社会生活产生深远影响。可见,对土司制度而言,实行改土归流仅仅意味着用人制度的转型,因而及时和适度地实施改土归流,恰好是整个封建王朝官僚体制有效和灵活运转的标志。

The Reform of Aboriginal Chieftain:The Transformation of the Chieftains Family's Political Destiny

For a long time,scholars used to take 'the reform of aboriginal chieftain' as the 'ended play' to study,but when the local historical documents are carefully studied,it could be found that after the reform of aboriginal chieftain,the descendants of those Chieftains not only had long-term important positions,but also had profound influence to the social living and production.It is clear that to the chieftains,the chieftain system reform was only means the transform of choosing personnel system and just marke...