19세기 貴州 錦屛縣 일대 묘족 사회의 소송과 장기지속 ― ‘苗婦姜九妹被拐案考’를 중심으로 ―

Abstract

This article describes an abduction case, where Jiang Jiumei(姜九妹), the Miao woman, was the victim of this case. Qing dynasty strived to directly govern Guizhou province(貴州省), dispatching their officials, but was faced with large resistence of ‘rare Miao(生苗)’, and couldn’t make great progress on it. In 1870, Jiang Yubao(姜玉保), a Miao man, presented a petition to the office of Liping prefecture(黎平府), accusing Han Lushou(韓祿壽), his friend, of kidnapping Jiang Jiumei, his younger brother’s wife. Han’s family counteracted Jiang’s accusation, condemning his accusation as false charge. Without any clear evidence, its conclusion has not been made. A long-running feud existed between the Jiang family and the Han family, Jiang’s father and Han’s father were in conflict with each other due to Han’s failure to payment for land trade, and this led to a potential rupture with each other. The Jiang family blamed the Han family as ‘Hanjian(漢奸)’, illegal Han-chinese immigrants. It meant Han-chinese smugglers who illegally immigrated to Guizhou and sold timbers, which damaged Miao’s profit from timber trades. The Jiang family acted collectively to protect from the immigrants’ involvement in timber trades that the Jiang family had exclusively conducted. The Liping magistrate(黎平府知府) didn’t make clear comments, because he might have avoided making inadequate judgment, or sought to minimally apply the law on the case.