TY - BOOK AU - Millward,James A. TI - Beyond the pass: economy, ethnicity, and empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 SN - 0804729336 (alk. paper) AV - DS793.S62 M535 1998 U1 - 951/.6 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Ethnicity KW - China KW - Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu KW - Etnicidad KW - Bestuur KW - gtt KW - Belastingheffing KW - Ethnicité KW - Chine KW - Xinjiang KW - ram KW - Ethnische Gruppe KW - swd KW - Ethnizität KW - Qingdynastie KW - Wirtschaft KW - Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) KW - History KW - Commerce KW - Qianlong, 1736-1795 KW - 1795-1861 KW - Historia KW - Comercio KW - 1795 1861 KW - Xinjiang (Chine) KW - Histoire KW - Commerce extérieur KW - 1736-1795 (Qianlong) KW - 1644-1912 (Dynastie mandchoue) KW - Zentralasien N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-342) and index; 1; Landmarks; The Lay of the Land; The Historical Terrain; High Qing Xinjiang; The Jiayu Guan, Qing Expansion, and "China"; Literati Dissent, Imperial Response; Justifying Empire at Home --; 2; Financing New Dominion; The Kazakh Trade; The Kazakhs and the "Tribute System,"; Planting the Frontier; Local Sources of Revenue; Merchant Loans and the Provisioning of the Qing Military; Xinjiang's Silver Lifeline; Yambus for the Maharajah?; Two Metals, Three Currencies; Pul-Tael Exchange Rates and Cotton Cloth; Currency Troubles and Reform --; 3; Official Commerce and Commercial Taxation in the Far West; Xinjiang Military Deployment; Tea and the Beginnings of Official Commerce in Xinjiang; Formation of the Xinjiang Commissaries N2 - 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 ER -