@article{oai:toyo-bunko.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006217,
 author = {前島, 佳孝 and MAEJIMA, Yoshitaka},
 issue = {4},
 journal = {東洋学報, The Toyo Gakuho},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Under the Northern Wei 魏 Dynasty, xingtai 行台, which were regional branch offices of Ministry of State (Shangshu Sheng 尚書省), became wideranging and powerful administrative agencies and continued to play an important role in regional governance under the Eastern Wei and Northem Qi 斉 Dynasties. However, since the institution has been thought to have fallen into decline under the Western Wei Dynasty, it ceased to be the subject of interest to historians of ancient China.During that time, xingtai assumed a variety of forms. One was the conventional agency located in the provinces, another the da xingtai of Yuwen Tai 宇文秦 located in the central of government. Furthermore, regional xingtai were subdivided into (1) those located in already pacified areas, (2) those in war zones, and (3) those which local power-holders were permitted to establish. Type (1) were established in areas under the rule of the Western Wei and are seen on the front line facing the Eastern Wei. Many of them were established and then abolished during a short period during the first half of the Dynasty’s existence. Type (2) were established throughout the Dynasty’s history in conjunction with military campaigns against neighboring powers or during the pacification of internal rebellions. That is to say, when military action was being taken in areas where Dynasty rule had not yet been established. All of them were abolished as soon as military action came to an end. Type (3) were assigned to powerful clans and other local power-holders during the first half of the Dynasty’s reign in the forward area facing the Eastem Wei. Here we find local power-holders being vested with considerable authority as an expedient to win them over to the Western Wei.A feature common to all xingtai during that time is a lack of permanency. In this respect they differed markedly from their permanent counterparts that existed from the late Northern Wei through to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Period, when they turned into permanent institutions. One could say that the Western Wei xingtai had returned to the original form as a temporary office of the Ministry of State.The da xingtai of Yuwen Tai was, along with the Office of the Councilor-in-chief (Chengxiang Fu 丞相府), the most important government agency under the Western Wei Dynasty. It was not a full-fledged administrative agency, but functioned more like an office for accommodating Yuwen Tai’s personal staff, involved in deciding on policy and government institutions. Whenever Yuwen Tai set out on a military campaign, it would be invested with the powers of the Ministry of State in the field, with no particular restrictions on its area of jurisdiction, and was also involved in managing the campaign in conjunction with the Chengxiang Fu.It was in this way that the Western Wei Dynasty made flexible use of xingtai, by adjusting the scale of its area of jurisdiction and its powers to suit the circumstances. In addition, although the relationship of the xingtai to the Commander-in-chief (Dudu 都督) has hitherto been regarded as a subordinate relationship, since in actuality their respective areas of expertise differed, they should be considered to have stood in a parallel, mutually complementary relationship to each other.},
 pages = {365--397},
 title = {西魏行台考},
 volume = {90},
 year = {2009},
 yomi = {マエジマ, ヨシタカ}
}