The Analysis of the space hierarchy of the Liaodong Military Settlements in the Mid Ming Dynasty

摘要

This paper aims at re-examining the Liaodong military settlements and the research conducted suggests that the space hierarchy structure of the Liaodong military settlements contains two aspects, the walled garrisons under the Dusi system and the command power under the Zongbing system.It is put forward that there are four hierarchies of the Liaodong walled garrisons in the Mid Ming dynasty in the way of logical argument according to statistics about these settlements' space feature.