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Measuring the Travel Distance: Travel Path and Cultural Difference of the Ming Officials (2020)
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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Ming government (1368-1643) established a personnel system to counter against bureaucracy corruption and to secure the frontier. Regulations include separate family members in the line of authority, appoint officials to a non-native region. This indicates that people from multiple cultures were appointed to travel across the country to serve their duty. By using the GIS as a...