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Dewey Decimal Number: 951.6 EAN: 9780300048278 ISBN: 0300048270 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: March 27, 1991 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - TitelPls. be informed that the name "Xinjiang" was created in 1876 after the invasion of Zo Zong Tang. This country during the period 1758~1820 called Uyghur Kingdom or Eastern Turkestan, but not Xinjiang. Be neutral and history respectful. Rating:  - TitelPls. be informed that the name "Xinjiang" was created in 1876 after the invation of Zo Zong Tang. The name of this country during the period 1758~1820 was Uyghur KIngdom or Eastern Turkestan, bur not Xinjiang. Be neutral and history respectful. 
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