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The county office was the lowest level of civil state administration during the Ming era, overseeing an area with approximately 40,000 inhabitants. [ e ] It was led by three senior officials ( 官 ; guan ): the county magistrate, his vice magistrate, and an assistant magistrate.
The History of Ming—the official dynastic history compiled in 1739 by the subsequent Qing dynasty (1644–1912)—states that the Ming established itinerant commanderies overseeing Tibetan administration while also renewing titles of ex-Yuan dynasty officials from Tibet and conferring new princely titles on leaders of Tibetan Buddhist sects. [28]
At the beginning of the Ming dynasty, the administration adopted the Yuan dynasty's model of having only one department, the Secretariat, superimposed on the Six Ministries. The Secretariat was led by two Chancellors, differentiated as being "of the left" (senior) and "of the right" (junior), who were the head of the whole officialdom in the ...
No copies of this first Ming Code are extant. [5] On January 6, 1374, the emperor ordered Liu Weiqian, the Minister of Justice, to revise the Code, and this was completed in the spring of the same year. This new code, called for the first time the Great Ming Code, consisted of 606 articles (288 of which were taken from the first Ming Code). [6]
Pages in category "Ming dynasty government officials" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Ming provincial government consisted of three cooperating agencies: the Provincial Administration Commission (chengxuan buzheng shisi), the Provincial Surveillance Commission (tixing ancha shisi), and the Regional Military Commission (du zhihui shisi). They were directed by a Grand Coordinator, whose tenure was indefinite, and a Supreme ...
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The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...