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。从西伯利亚到阿富汗，他们的游牧帝国将大草原与丝绸之路、佛教和伊斯兰世界联系起来。该项目立足于对中国和俄罗斯档案的多语言研究，以及对亚洲内部编年史和圣徒传的广泛阅读，旨在阐明欧亚边境地区的微观政治，以及我们今天所知的伴随中国创建的非中国叙事。通过提供一个新的帐户早期现代内部亚洲的历史，该项目预计将推进中国，内部亚洲和帝国的历史领域在澳大利亚。

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.