Manchu In The Qing Dynasty

The Manchu’s supreme rule would not cease once civilians got selected as government officers. Within the government agencies, there were a strict hierarchical system that again built based on Manchu’s nobility. One of the most core agency that created by Manchu in the Qing dynasty that mainly responsible for the colonial and peripheral rule was the Li Fanyuan. The Li Fanyuan had set different local offices in Qing’s peripheral areas like Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang and selected elite Bannermen from all three divisions and degree winners from the civl office examination as officers in those locality and central court offices in order to govern the country together. Nevertheless, as Cosmo reveals in his article Qing colonial administration in Inner Asia, Li Fanyuan was intrinsically not a Chinese institution, it was created by the Manchus to serve the territorial expansion in specific historic circumstances. From the outset, the Lifan Yuan was the preserve of Manchu and Mongol administrators, top official position could only be …show more content…
Ruled by Mongolians, the Yuan dynasty is considered as the largest empire in China that also functions as a highly structured society that based on Mongolian’s rule. Different from the implicit ethnic and social division in the Qing dynasty, as revealed by Endicott, the Yuan dynasty had a fairy outspoken hierarchy that based on people’s ethnicity in which Mongols and Semus and non-Mongol foreigners were placed at the top social stratum and Chinese and Southerners were found at the bottom. Contrary to standard narrative which claims that it was Mongolian’s overly isolated policy and their barbaric characteristics that made Yuan perish rapidly, it is actually the disorganizations and fragmentations of the Mongolian governmental policies and constitutions that caused the ruling bias and further expedite the final vanish of the Yuan