Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864Beyond the Pass examines the fiscal and ethnic policies that underlay Qing imperial control over Xinjiang, a Central Asian region that now comprises the westernmost sixth of the People's Republic of China. By focusing on a region of the Qing empire beyond the borders of China proper, and by treating the empire not as a Chinese dynasty but in its broader context as an Inner Asian political entity, this innovative study fills a gap in Western-language historiography of late imperial China. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Landmarks | 20 |
2 Financing New Dominion | 44 |
3 Official Commerce and Commercial Taxation in the Far West | 76 |
Chinese Mercantile Penetration of Zinjiang | 113 |
5 The Merchants and Articles of Trade | 153 |
6 Qing Ethnic Policy and Chinese Merchants | 194 |
Toward the Domestication of Empire | 232 |
Character List | 255 |
Notes | 261 |
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Other editions - View all
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 James Millward No preview available - 1998 |
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 James Millward No preview available - 2016 |
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