Josutu League Explained

The Josutu League (Mongolian: ǰosutu-yin čiɣulɣan,) was the southernmost league of Inner Mongolia during Qing rule. It occupied land that forms part of the modern-day Chinese provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Chifeng in China's Inner Mongolia.

The name of Josutu was named after a place in the Tumed Right (wing) Banner (not Tumed Right Banner), where Mongol princes regularly gathered together to administer inter-banner affairs.

Divisions

The Josutu League consisted of two ayimag or five banners.

• Tümed (or Eastern Tümed): two banners
  • Tümed Left Wing Banner (Mongghuljin Banner), led by descendants of Jelme
  • Tümed Right Wing Banner, led by descendants of the Chinggisid Altan Khan
• Kharachin : three banners, all of which were led by descendants of Jelme
  • Kharachin Left Banner
  • Kharachin Middle Banner

In addition, the Khalkha Banner (Tangghud-Khaklha Banner) was split from the Tümed Left Banner in 1913 under the Republic of China.

Dissolution

The league was dissolved in 1933 by the Manchukuo government. Its territory is now distributed among the modern administrative regions:

• Fuxin County from the Tümed Left Banner.
• Chaoyang County from the Tümed Right Banner.
• Lingyuan (or Jianchang) County from the Kharachin Left Banner.
• Pingquan County annexed a large portion of the Kharachin Right and Middle Banners.
• Jianping County corresponds to an eastern portion of the Kharachin Right and Middle Banners.

There remain two Mongol autonomous counties in Liaoning.

• Some portion of the former Tümed Left Banner became Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Fuxin City.
• The remaining portion of the former Kharachin Left Banner became Kharachin Left Wing Mongol Autonomous County, Chaoyang City.

See also

• Jindandao Incident

References

• Yamazaki Sōyo 山崎惣與, Manshū-koku chimei daijiten 滿洲國地名大辭典, p.556,758, 1941.