Exile in Mid-Qing China : banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820
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Exile in Mid-Qing China : banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820
（Yale historical publications）
Yale University Press, c1991
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Bibliography: p. 241-258
Includes index
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Banishment to Zinjiang ranked second in severity only to death in Qing law. Initiated immediately upon the addition of that Central Asian frontier to the Chinese empire, it became a vital element of both the legal system and the project of colonizing the new frontier. In this book Joanna Waley-Cohen traces the establishment and inital years of the system, showing how the Qing government worked in the decades before dynastic decline took firm hold, exploring the role of banishment in Chinese mainstream and frontier society, and evaluating the system in the context of state expansion, political conflict, and the criminal justice system. Based on archival and published government documents, biographies, and contemporary accounts, the book addresses such topics as the varied crimes and social origins of the Zinjiang exiles, the logistics of the several months' journey into exile, the role of exiles in the colonization of the new frontier, the experiences of both banished officials and ordinary convicts, the exiles' prospects for release and return, the literature of Zinjiang banishment, and the self-perception of exiled scholars as the heirs to a long tradition.
The author demonstrates that the intended use of convicts as colonists was only moderately successful, but the influence of temporaily banished government officials was unexpectedly important in that it ultimately contributed to the political integration of Zinjiang into the empire.
Table of Contents
- Xinjiang and the expansion of the empire in the 18th century
- exil and expansion prior to the Qing
- the law and policy of exile under the Qing
- who were the Xinjiang exiles?
- the journey into exile
- disgraced officials in exile
- the lives of the Xinjiang convicts
- the end of exile. Appendices: a note on the application of collective responsibility under the Qing
- the case of Lu Liuliang's descendants
- the 1806 regulations concerning the right of ordinary convicts to return from Xinjiang
- period of exile already served by disgraced officials in exile by 1794.
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