英文摘要
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As soon as Chao Erfung received the order to put down the rebellion of Patang (巴塘), he set off to construct this frontier region of Suchuan which lasted for seven years, and laid the foundation of the establishment of the Shikang Province. Because of this, though the Patang Affair was not a tremendous in the frontier, was nevertheless regarded as a significant event in modern Chinese history by the government and scholars.
After the Patang Affair, the government made great military efforts. We may ignore those small scale combats, but we must pay more attention to the decisive warfare at Hsiangcheng(鄉城). This paper argues that the significance of Chao's victory at Hsiangcheng should be as important as that at Patang. However, since the location of Hsiangcheng in the region is far remote than that of Patang, besides being neither a strategic point nor an administrative center, its role has usually been ignored. This paper intends to point out and reconstruct the process of the Hsiangcheng Battle by using available materials with a view to providing a new perspective.
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