Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820

by Joanna Waley-Cohen

$20 · Offered by The Lawbook Exchange

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991 . xv, 267 pp. Hardcover in near-fine dust jacket. 20. * Banishment to Zinjiang ranked second in severity only to death in Qing law. Initiated immediately upon the addition of that Central Asian frontier to the Chinese empire, it became a vital element of both the legal system and the project of colonizing the new frontier. In this book Joanna

• Binding: Hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.