ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the organizations: the six departments, five courts and the provincial administration related only to the eighteen provinces in China Proper, the Province of Sinkiang, the eastern three provinces, and Formosa, but had nothing to do with the governments of Mongolia, Tibet, and Chinese Turkestan, although these places occupy more space on the map than China Proper. Taking the whole department into consideration, the principal duties were to keep complete records of the territories, including the nobles and inhabitants, to appoint officials to the territories, to give aids and charitable gifts, to command the territorial troops, and to train the territorial princes. Unlike other departments where the racial distribution of offices was between the Chinese and the Manchus, the Manchus and the Mongols divided the spoils. The Department of Territories, the only important service in Peking not yet discussed, had charge of all the territories.
