Empire and religion in early modern Inner Asia, 1650-1800

这个项目旨在从清朝在中亚的主要对手——准噶尔蒙古人的角度重新审视中国的帝国扩张。他们的游牧帝国从西伯利亚一直延伸到阿富汗，将这片草原与丝绸之路、佛教和伊斯兰世界联系在一起。该项目基于对中国和俄罗斯档案的多语言研究，以及对内亚编年史和圣徒传记的广泛阅读，旨在阐明欧亚边境地区的微观政治，以及伴随我们今天所知的中国创建的非中国叙事。通过对近代早期内亚历史的新描述，本项目有望推动中国、内亚和澳大利亚帝国历史领域的发展。

This project aims to re-examine China’s imperial expansion from the perspective of the Qing dynasty’s chief rivals in Inner Asia—the Junghar Mongols. Stretching from Siberia to Afghanistan, their nomadic empire linked the steppe with the Silk Road, and the Buddhist and Islamic worlds. Grounded in multilingual research in Chinese and Russian archives, and wide reading in Inner Asian chronicles and hagiographies, the project seeks to elucidate the micropolitics of the Eurasian borderlands, and the non-Chinese narratives that accompanied the creation of China as we know it today. By offering a new account of early modern Inner Asian history, this project expects to advance the fields of Chinese, Inner Asian and imperial history in Australia.