多民族国家构建视野下的土司制度

Tusi System in the Process of Constructing a Multi-ethnic Country

土司制度是多民族国家中国构建过程中出现的一种特殊的政治体制,也是中国边疆史地研究的重要内容,尽管以往学者们从历代王朝边疆治理或不同土司的个体层面已经有过很多研究,但笔者认为在宏观理论层面还是有些问题需要进一步深入研究。本文从郡县制下的特殊统治方式、土司制度也是羁縻统治方式的一种、改土归流是多民族国家建构的必然趋势三个方面进行论述。

The Tusi system in China, which was a special political system that emerged in the process of constructing a multiethnic country, deserves more studies. Though the previous studies had made some achievements in terms of the borderland administration and individual Tusis, the au- thor of this paper holds that some macrotheoretical problems need further studies. This paper discuses the relevant problems from three perspectives, the special administration of the Jun-County system, the Tusi administration as a ruling system and the unavoidable trend of the the power shift from the local Tusi to the Han official in the process of constructing a multiethnic country.