Chapter IX Other Aspect Of Administration

This list indicates that the local government's function were comprehensive; they incorporated not only those activites which could be performed only by the government, but also the supervision of those activities which were, or could have been, handled by private agencies. Underlying this situation was the Chinese philosophy of government, which decreed that every organized activity that concerned the general welfare of the populace was the concern of the government. Therefore all community activities were either governmentalized or under direct government supervision.
decreed译作「宣告」稍显奇怪，但也没想到更好的译法就先做个标注