Beyond the pass
Subtitle: economy, ethnicity, and empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864
By: James A. Millward.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Ethnicity -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- History.; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Commerce -- History.; China -- History -- Qianlong, 1736-1795.; China -- History -- 1795-1861.
Other titles: Economy, ethnicity, and empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864
Description: Beyond 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-342) and index.