Abstract:

]During the period of the Republic of China, the National Government in Nanjing established the Central Mongolian and Tibetan Commission. As its dispatch branch, the Tibetan MongolianandTibetan Commission Office, set up in April, 1940, is representative of the central government in Tibet. This branch, in the period of its presence in Tibet, did a series of works, promoting the recovery and development of the relationship between the center and Tibet. And one of these works, for the Tibetan MongolianandTibetan Commission Office is to seek and strengthen the jurisdiction for the Han residents in Tibet. This essay, based on Taiwan' s new released archives and other historical records about the Tibetan MongolianandTibetan Commission Office, and focusing on the four years from April, 1940 to July, 1944 when Kong Qingzong worked as the first director of the Office, makes a research for the process, effect and significance of the jurisdiction of the Tibetan MongolianandTibetan Commission Office for the Han Residents in Tibet, displaying its active role in the process of improving the friendly relations between the two sides of Han and Tibetan residents.

Key words: Kong Qingzong; the Tibetan MongolianandTibetan Commission Office; the Han residents in Tibet; jurisdiction