Suo

Pasted on it was a small piece of paper with the surname "Suo --" hurriedly written on it.

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Suo, whose I Just Didn't Do It tackles a subway groping incident.

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Suo was a harbor so small that a large schooner could not swing at anchor in it.

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Now there were no salt-water men living at Suo, and it was there that the bushmen could come down to the sea.

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Some shao reached far beyond the Wei-Suo system, entering native chieftain areas where no Han people had been before.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

The Wei-Suo system, or military garrisons protecting key cities, towns, and passes, distinguished itself by making garrisons permanent homes for soldiers.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

A look at the emergence of the local gentry during the decline of the Wei-Suo system will demonstrate the reproduction of the Chinese social structure in a frontier province.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

In Yunnan, one share was around 20 mu. 222 In the early fourteenth century, the Wei-Suo system was gradually alienated in favor of military leaders who gradually took the land from the state and made it their own.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

The Mus in Yunnan were in fact accused of turning all the military farms into their private property. 225 Though exaggerated, the accusation does expose the major problem in the Wei-Suo system as the embezzlement of military farms by officials. 226 Many soldiers even voluntarily gave themselves and their farms to military officials, hence escaping the unbearable military taxation.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

The Emergence of the Yunnanese (Yunnanren) 118Under the Wei-Suo system, all the reclaimed lands were owned by the imperial state, which were categorized as state fields (guantian).

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008