The Daoguang Response to the Āfāqī khoja Jahāngīr during the 1826-1828 Jahāngīr Uprising

This study examines Qing state attention to the Muslim challenger Jahāngīr, leader of Xinjiang's 1826-1828 Jahāngīr Uprising. It considers how imperial agents, guided by Emperor Daoguang, defined and processed this contender, as well what this rendering implied for views of "Hui Frontier&q...

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Published inMonumenta serica Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 343 - 362
Main Author McMahon, Daniel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 03.07.2017
Subjects
China
Hui Frontier
Jahāngīr
Jahāngīr Uprising
Qing dynasty
Xinjiang
張格爾
張格爾之亂
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Summary:This study examines Qing state attention to the Muslim challenger Jahāngīr, leader of Xinjiang's 1826-1828 Jahāngīr Uprising. It considers how imperial agents, guided by Emperor Daoguang, defined and processed this contender, as well what this rendering implied for views of "Hui Frontier" Muslims. As will be seen, Jahāngīr was depicted as not just "treacherous" and duplicitous, but also an external "barbarian." This image - crafted from military reports, imperial edicts, confessions, ritual, sentencing, and punishment - served to clarify a narrative with two salient characteristics. First, the khoja was set as the keystone of the conflict, the management of whom signaled a restoration of imperial integrity. Second, he was differentiated from local Turkic Muslims "Hui," who (with ambiguity) were framed as Qing subjects. This rendering mirrored earlier Qing (esp. Jiaqing Reforms) depictions of borderland rebel leaders, suggestive of a solidification of the "idea" of Xinjiang as interior to the empire.
ISSN:0254-9948
2057-1690
DOI:10.1080/02549948.2017.1393979