Tag: Population Displacement

The Great Clearance and the Reopening of the Coast: A Social Upheaval in Early Qing Xin’an War, Population, and the Reconstruction of Local Society in the Kangxi Gazetteer of Xin’an County I. Introduction: The Disappearance of a County By 1667, the sixth year of the Kangxi reign, the county government compound of Xin’an lay in…