Abstract
This article compares and examines the organization and duties of local government officials during Baekje (百濟) and Lianghan (兩漢)-Weijin (魏晉)- Nanbeichao (南北朝) Periods with the aim of examining the so-called “three classes interpretation” of the local administrative system in the kingdom of Baekje.BR Local administration during the Baekje Period was composed of three classes for the military system - Bang (方: province), Gun (郡: county) and Seong (城: castle) - and two classes for the civil administrative system - Bang, Gun and Seong, Eup (邑: town).BR In Baekje the post of bangryeong (方領) was institutionally influenced by governor-general(州牧: zhoumu ) of the Later Han dynasty, and gun of Baekje by xian(縣: prefectures) of dynastic China since Han dynasty. Baekje was mainly influenced by Chinese local government officials of Lelangjun(樂浪郡) and Daifangjun(帶方郡). The author concludes from the above comparision that the local administrative organization of Baekje was not influenced by China’s three class system of zhou-jun-xian (州郡縣: province, county and prefecture) instituted during the Nanbeichao period, but rather by the two class jun-xian (郡縣: county and prefecture) system, which predated it.
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