http://asia.elliottback.com/asian-212-lecture-20-manchus-and-qing/ China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:53:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://asia.elliottback.com/asian-212-lecture-20-manchus-and-qing/#comment-440854 Tyler Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:29:44 +0000 http://asia.elliottback.com/archives/2006/04/27/asian-212-lecture-20-manchus-and-qing/#comment-440854 I think it's important to point out that these "volunteers" that you bring light upon were actually on the payroll under the titles of yamen, runners and secretaries. While their salary was extremely low (6 taels or less), these workers were crucial parts of the system and their numbers reached in the thousands per magistrate. They were, as you said, vulnerable to corruption because instigating litigations was really the only way to ensure a steady inflow of work. That being said, they were really the only measures the Qing state could take because hiring more magistrates not only gave the appearance of unruly, out of control litigations, but also decreased the emperor's amount of direct power and decreased his ability to restrict the full elaboration of bureaucratic routinization. I think it’s important to point out that these “volunteers” that you bring light upon were actually on the payroll under the titles of yamen, runners and secretaries. While their salary was extremely low (6 taels or less), these workers were crucial parts of the system and their numbers reached in the thousands per magistrate. They were, as you said, vulnerable to corruption because instigating litigations was really the only way to ensure a steady inflow of work. That being said, they were really the only measures the Qing state could take because hiring more magistrates not only gave the appearance of unruly, out of control litigations, but also decreased the emperor’s amount of direct power and decreased his ability to restrict the full elaboration of bureaucratic routinization.

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