On the Influential Kindred Clans in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Local Communities

The local communities are the root of the influential kindred clans in the Eastern Han dynasty as a social force.The influential kindred clans formed their authority through long-term holding and hosting of the clans' public affairs and further acquired their dominance over the local communities,achieving their super economic compulsion and the control of the officialdom.The approach to the development of force for the influential kindred clans lies mainly in the annexation of the large-scale ownership of land in terms of economy and the attempt to manipulate the officialdom in terms of politics.Hence,there appeared the trend of the influential kindred clans' evolving into bureaucracy and oligarchic clans,which eventually led to the disruption of the kindred clans' community in the Eastern Han dynasty.