Table of Contents

Preface Note on transliteration Abbreviations Introduction 1. Landmarks 2. Financing new dominion 3. Official commerce and commercial taxation in the Far West 4. 'Gathering Like Clouds': Chinese mercantile penetration of Xinjiang 5. The merchants and articles of trade 6. Qing ethnic policy and Chinese merchants Conclusion: toward the domestication of Empire Epilogue: the Xianfeng fiscal crisis: statecraft thinkers and Qing Xinjiang: the question of Qing imperialism Character list Notes Bibliography Index.

About the Author

James Millward is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University. This is a much-revised version of his 1993 Stanford doctoral dissertation. He has previously published two articles in scholarly journals and a chapter in our recent multi-author work Remapping China.

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