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Guangning Garrison City

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Guangning Garrison City refers to the military and administrative space of the Qing Eight Banners establishment centered on Guangning, in the region of present-day Beizhen, Liaoning. Qing records place Guangning alongside other Shengjing garrison stations, including Jinzhou and N…

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Overview

Guangning Garrison City refers to the military and administrative space of the Qing Eight Banners establishment centered on Guangning, in the region of present-day Beizhen, Liaoning. Qing records place Guangning alongside other Shengjing garrison stations, including Jinzhou and Niuzhuang. The expression must not automatically be reduced to the masonry of a single fortress: a place name in administrative documentation may also stand for the jurisdiction supervised from that site.

Historical Background

A study of Shengjing garrisons published by the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University cites the construction section of the Imperially Commissioned Comprehensive Gazetteer of the Eight Banners, as well as the Kangxi-era Shengjing Gazetteer and the Collected Statutes of Qing. The cited gazetteer refers to land assessed in the eighteenth year after the Shunzhi reign's establishment at the four places Jin, Ning, Shahou, and Guangning. The study cautions that the word “city” in such a passage can denote the administrative area of a city garrison rather than farmland literally situated inside the walls.

Sources and Interpretation

The wider Eight Banners military system distinguished capital forces from provincial garrisons, whose tasks included defense and Banner administration. Garrison posts and senior commands were not identical at every station. Accordingly, the exact dimensions of Guangning's walls, the date of particular buildings, and the identities and tenures of its officers should be established from the relevant original fascicles of the Banner gazetteer and Shengjing sources. Figures drawn from other garrison towns cannot simply be transferred to Guangning.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. iqh.ruc.edu.cn
  2. Digitized historical text
  3. Qing history research resource

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