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Viewing the Commission of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs from thePerspective of Building a Modern Nation(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2016年06期
Page:
95-
Research Field:
历史问题研究
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Title:
Viewing the Commission of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs from thePerspective of Building a Modern Nation
Author(s):
LIU Fang
Keywords:
Commission of Mongolian and Tibetan AffairsMongolian and Tibetan Councilnation-statepolitical tutelage systemrelationship between central government and local government
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Abstract:
The Commission of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs was the central administrative organ of theNanjing National Government in charge of the Mongolian and Tibetan affairs. The commission was neither anagency handling ethnic affairs or making frontier policies in a strict sense nor a competent organ of the centralgovernment. Its policy objects were the Mongolian and Tibetan areas. Its institutional mission was,in the initialstage of People’s Republic of China,to promote a comprehensive reform in Mongolian and Tibetan areas onbehalf of the state,and to achieve the desired goal of building a modern nation. The commission’s functionswere mainly embodied in two aspects:firstly,at the central level,playing the decision-making and policycoordination functions;secondly,on behalf of the central government,guiding,supervising and directlydealing with local administrative affairs in Mongolian and Tibetan regions. However,the national governmentat last failed to effectively solve Mongolian and Tibetan problems through a top-down administrative reform inits drive to build a modern China. There were actually two causes for this failure. On the one hand,the nationalgovernment lacked effective policies dealing with ethnic issues;this caused a mismatch between the institutionalstatus of the commission and the functions it was expected to play so that the policies made by the commissionhad insufficient binding effect on other departments of the central government,thus failing to play the functionof policy coordination between different governmental bodies. On the other hand,the reforms initiated by thecentral government cannot effectively be carried out due to its weak control over local governments.

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