Articles

The Administrative and Territorial Structure of Mengjiang State

Vostok/Oriens '2015, №4

 
The article describes the administrative and territorial structure of the Mengjiang state, which in the 1930s and 1940s laid claim to leadership in the world of Mongolian peoples. This article discloses the governmental organization of the state apparatus in the field and discusses legal regulation of the territorial organization, the role and place of the Japanese side in the management areas. The territorial basis were aimags, which included khoshuns, both retained its structure and management under the occupation regime. The author explores the transformation of the territorial organization, which served as a management tool for the occupying forces. In addition as independent administrative units there were cities with special status. In contrast to the aimags, their operation was not dependent on a blood relation. These cities were headed not by descents from Genghis Khan but by appointed officials. In 1939 after the final merging with other fragments of Chinese provinces – Chang'an and Jingbei – Mengjiang territory in-creased. Its administrative map included new administrative units – the provinces. Mengjiang became a federation and retained this form of organization after becoming a part of Chinese territory under the administration of Wang Jingwei, but its potential realization failed and Mengjiang was eliminated in August of 1945.

Keywords: Mengjiang, Inner Mongolia, aimag, khoshun, administrative division

Pages: С. 47–58