Juxeri

Juxeri was one of the Jurchen groups associated with the Changbai Mountain region. Its late sixteenth-century history belongs to a landscape of separate leaders and fortified communities, before Nurhaci's expanding state incorporated them. The name identifies a historical community and its territory, rather than a modern county whose boundaries can simply be carried back into the Ming period.

In 1593 Yulengge, the leader of Juxeri, joined the coalition against Nurhaci that brought together the Yehe, Hada, Ula and Hoifa rulers with Mongol and other allies. The coalition illustrates the ability of these communities to organise against a growing neighbour, as well as the pressures created by that neighbour's expansion. Juxeri was subsequently brought under Nurhaci's authority alongside other Changbai groups, including Neyen. These events formed part of a wider struggle over people, resources and access to Ming exchange. Commercial privileges and tribute documents mattered within that regional competition, but military conquest increasingly concentrated authority in the emerging Manchu polity.