A study of the control of the non-Chinese tribes in the Tang Dynasty

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K03100
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: Moribe Yutaka 関西大学, 文学部, 教授 (00411489)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 羈縻支配 / 契丹 / 高句麗 / 靺鞨 / 唐朝 / 府兵制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is generally said that the method of controlling the non-Chinese tribes of the Tang Dynasty was indirect rule.It gave a Tang official office to an ethnic leader and ruled his group through him.The image so far is that although the group was in the Tang Dynasty, it was self-governed.Today's Chaoyang city, Liaoning Province, China, was ciied Yingzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and there were many non-Chinese tribes living near it.In recent years, 13 epitaphs related to Jimizhou have been discovered.When I used these epitaphs to reexamine the control of the non-Chinese tribes at Ying-zhou, a different image of Jimizhou from the conventional image emerged.

Free Research Field

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究によって、唐朝の異民族支配の、一元的イメージ、すなわち異民族集団の首長に官職をあたえ、その集団を間接統治し、そこでは自治が行われていた、という今までのイメージは、必ずしも唐代のすべての羈縻州に当てはまるものではないという見通しが立った。このことは、唐朝という時代に対して、現代人が持っているイメージは、実は、後世の人によってつくられたイメージを投影している場合があり、より根本的に見直す必要がることを示唆するものである。