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| THE TERRITORYAND TERRITORIALITY IN THE SPATIAL GOVERNANCE OF CHINESE RURAL SOCIETY IN MING AND QING DYNASTIES |
| CHENG Peng-fei1,2, LIU Yun-gang1,2 |
1. School of Geography Sciences and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guagzhou 510275, China;
2. Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the governance structure of rural society is mainly composed of county governments, the rural gentries and villagers which are similar to the current rural governance structure. From a geographical perspective, the process of rural governance is mainly reflected in the allocation of rural spatial ownership and spatial power, which namely territorialization and re-territorialization. More specifically, in order to provide reference for problems of modern rural governance, the paper uses qualitative methods which mainly use literature study to interpret the historical background including the characters of county government and social bodies and theoretical background about territory, and then adapts the territory theory to analyze the relation between space and society and to study the territorialization mechanism between administrative subject and social subject in rural governance so as to study the characteristics of spatial power evolution from the perspective of the territoriality. Studies have shown that administrative territory dominated by the county governments with varied territoriality strategies. However, social territory which is constructed by rural bodies dominated by rural gentry and built on ancestral hall and the clan field can effectively demarcation of social territory and provide public goods and even partly replace the former at last, and the territorialization mechanism of it can be summarized as a three level governance mechanism called family-clan-township structure which is built on rural geography and blood relationship.
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Received: 18 August 2015
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2017, Vol. 32 
