Managing Western Yunnan: Changes in Military and Political Settings in Yongchang Region During the Ming Dynasty

This book takes the changes in the military and political settings of Yongchang area in the Ming Dynasty as a clue, excavates official history, factual records, local chronicles, anthologies, inscriptions, family trees and other materials, and discusses the relationship between the guards, prefectures and counties and social changes around the relationship between Yongchang area and surrounding situations. This book places the process of conversion between wards and prefectures and counties into the social context of the time and discusses the complex factors of the conversion between wards and prefectures and counties, as well as the regional social and cultural changes in the context of the conversion between wards and prefectures and counties.