著者

于 志嘉

出版者

東洋文庫

雑誌

東洋学報 = The Toyo Gakuho (ISSN:03869067)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.71, no.3, pp.311-351, 1990-03

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The social status of the military households (chün-hu 軍戸) of the Ming dynasty has been underestimated in the past. Using examination records like Têng-k'ê-lu 登科録 and Hsü-ch'ih-lu 序歯録 as well as biographical materials, the present study surveys the available household registers of all grand secretaries, presidents of the Six Ministries, and successful candidates in the metropolitan examination, chin-shih 進士, during the entire Ming period. It points out that there was no particular limitation to the member of chün-hu who could in fact participate in the civil service examination and hold a civil official post. It also argues that the chün-hu was in no way inferior to the commoner households (ming-hu 民戸) in the fortune of examination, and this success of theirs helped raise their social status.