Mountain City in Flux: 500 Years of Yongan's Administrative Evolution and Wartime Capital Legacy
Geographical Connections Yongan City (Yongan County), Yan River, Fuliu (Sha County), 26th to 29th Du (Youxi), Gongchuan, Datian County, Yanping Prefecture, Sanming City, Site of Provincial Capital Relocation, 13 Townships, 1 Town, 2 Sub-district Offices, 151 Village Committees. II. Ming Dynasty Genesis: From Borderland to the Birth of “Yongan” The creation of Yongan was a classic administrative experiment in “governance through security.” According to the Yongan City Gazetteer and the Yongan County Continued Gazetteer, the mid-Ming Dynasty saw large-scale uprisings led by Deng Maoqi, which created a power vacuum in the remote mountainous regions of central Fujian. ...