Introduction: The Xinhai Revolution and Inner Asia

Privileged Exclusion in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ethnic Return Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of (Not) Belonging

“…The ethnographic subjects of this article are self-ascribed Kazakhs who have migrated from Mongolia to Kazakhstan through a state-sponsored repatriation programme (Diener 2009;Shugatai 2012;Alff 2013;Post 2014;Zeveleva 2014). These 'Mongolian Kazakhs' were born and raised in Mongolia, and trace their ancestry to the Xinjiang province of China rather than the nearby Steppes of Kazakhstan (Finke 1999, pp.…”

‘Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’: The First Qing- Durrānī Encounter, the Tributary Non-relationship, and Disorder on a Shared Frontier

“…Nevertheless the Afghans are not his focus. 13 There is a single dedicated study of the relations between Aḥmad Shāh and the Qing in Chinese. Largely based on Qing primary documents, Li Xiao's 2013 article presents a comprehensive overview of the Afghan embassy to the Qing court, contextualizing it with reference to regional developments such as the rise of Khoqand and the perilous situation of Badakhshān.…”

Telling the stories of China well? The perception of China's rise by second-generation Chinese immigrants in an Australian University

“…2 China's rise has been discussed in various ways, but only recently has the scholarship started to examine it in relation to overseas Chinese migrants and their descendants (Wong and Tan 2018). Looking back at the history of modern China, overseas Chinese have continuously played an important role in the political economy in their home country, which we have seen in their participation in and devotion to the Xinhai Revolution (Brophy, Garnaut and Tighe 2012;Lee and Lee 2011), the socialist construction in the early 1950s (Godley 1989), and China's economic reform and opening since 1978 (Bolt 1996).…”