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Borderland capitalism: Turkestan produce, Qing silver, and the birth of an eastern market

By Kim , Kwangmin

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780804799232, 9781503600423, 0804799237, 1503600424
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5952635 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\310
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Agriculture--Economic aspects;Agriculture--Economi

Description

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 needed the Turkic begs to develop resources and raise military revenue while the begs needed access to the Chinese market. Drawing upon multilingual sources and archival material, Kwangmin Kim shows how the begs aligned themselves with the Qing to strengthen their own plantation-like economic system.

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