The Migration and Sinicization of the Chinese and Zhuang(壮) minority in Guangxi(広西) Province during the Ming and Qing Dynasty

This study is based on new materials obtained during field reseach at Guiping, situated at the homeland of the Taiping, on several visits between the years 1987 and 1994. Up until now, a lack of information has made difficult to study the history of Guangxi society and the early days of the Taiping. The ain of this article is to ascertain the his torical and socio-anthropological features of the correlation on of Chinese and Zhuang minority that Wei chang hui, the northan king (北王) of the Taiping, is included. The migration of Zhuang minority to the north side of Guiping started in 15th century, before the biginning of Chinese migration. Many of them were soldiers to supress the resistance movement of the Yao (瑶) minority, and made a great contribution to dynasty rule. But they could not make the political and economical foundation because of the lack of their leader, who was dismissed by he Gaituguiliu (改土帰流) policy. Under the superiority of Chinese bureaucratic migrant, the Zhuang minority engaged in tenant farming and started to accept the chinese culture. some of them succeeded at the Civil seivice examination and participated in the Chinese elite group, but most of them failed. On the other hand, some of the low class Chinese migrants, Wei chang hui\u27s family was included in, assimilated into Zhuang culture by the marriage with Zhuang minority. At the period of Taiping movement, the Zhuang minority and Chinese low class migrants opposed to “keji”(客籍) elite group who ruled Jintian society. They could not obtain political power because of the disturbance by “keji” elite group, Wei chang hui was also persecuted at the purchase of Jiansheng (監生) status. The Taiping\u27s propagation, that promised the great glory after the revolution, was the only relief to them