The Strategy of Traditional Chinese Bao-Jia Control Used for Policing Japanese Occupied Manchukuo

• In Event: Policing in East Asia

Abstract

The Chinese traditional Bao-Jia system emerged in Qin dynasty as a system for the emperor and regional warlords to control peasants. The Imperial Japanese thought the Bao-jia system was efficient and adapted it wholeheartedly in the puppet state of Manchukuo, established by Japanese occupation of northeast China in 1932 and lasting until the end of World War II in 1945. Japanese adoption of bao jia ensured orderly production and employed a system of punishments for infractions or rebellion. This paper reviews the historical record from a sociological perspective to address state controls imposed by Imperial Japanese police units in occupied China.

Author

• Darrell Irwin, Central China Normal University