Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market
by
Kwangmin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. Borderland Capitalism argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration...