There were two hierarchies of local autonomy in the late Qing period,one in cities(府厅州县)and the other in towns(城镇乡),which together constructed two models of different hierarchies of official governance and autonomy,that is, making autonomy as the assistant of official governance in cities and making autonomy and official governance together in towns.The two models were all learnt from the autonomous system in Japan and made changes.As to the execution of the au-tonomy in cities,on one hand,the government got the rights to supervise auton...
