Under the Qing dynasty, there were many people who emigrated from some Advanced provinces, especially Hubei and Human into Sichuan province. The major concern of this paper is to make clear the process of organizing stable system in the immigrant society. To approach this issue, I intend to investigate the matrimonial alliances of the Tu lineage in Yunyang country. In the Qianlong period, the Tu family emigrated from Hubei province to Yunyang country. After becoming a large landowner and local elite, the powerful segment of the Tu lineage formed a matrimonial alliance with the other local elites, the Wu lineage, the Peng lineage, the Xue lineage and so on. In the case of powerful segments, the matrimonial alliance was made repeatedly and led to their firm and continual alliance with local elites. But it was impossible for the humble segments to make an alliance in such ways. The humble segments only had a smaller circle of alliance, and they did not have regular allies. In the late Qing period, the matrimonial alliance between local elites had a great influence upon their own local administration.
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