Imperial rules and Central Asian multi-ethnic societies: Cases of the Ili district in Xinjiang

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720353
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Asian history
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: NODA Jin 早稲田大学, 高等研究所, 准教授 (00549420)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ロシア / 国際関係史 / 新疆 / カザフスタン / 清朝

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project, analyzing the Russian and Qing archival documents during the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, examined the cases of the dispute solutions among the Central Asian ethnic minorities (mainly Kazakhs, here) in the Ili district in north Xinjiang. Investigating the imperial policies for the multi-ethnic people regarding their nationalities as well, the project portrayed that the three parties (Russian and Qing empires, and local ethnic groups) could established the new trial system in which the three parties solved together the international conflicts beyond the border, even with referring to the local customary law.

Free Research Field

中央アジア史