Ebook: A set of Chaghatay and Manchu documents, drafted by a Kasghar Hakim Beg in 1801: a basic study of a Chaghatay-Turkic administrative document

Tokyo: The Tokyo Bunko, 2010. — 185-217 pp. Tokyo Bunko research library, XII. Studies on Xinjiang historical sources in 17-20th centuries.In contrast, although there has been some research on manuscripts and public documents in Kashgaria (Eastern Turkistan, Chinese Turkistan), where Turkic speaking Muslims (today's Uyghurs) resided, the research on the Qing official documents in Turkic is insufficient. In particular, few of the documents that were exchanged between the local Qing government in major cities and the higher ranked begs, who supervised practical works of civil administration, have come to light. On account of this, scholars have been unable to fully explain the connection between dynastic political power and Kashgaria oasis society. The JMLZ has already been microfilmed, and the documents introduced in this paper are recorded on frames (ff.) 2624-42 of reel number (168). They consist of one Chaghatay-Turkic document (ff. 2625-34) and two Manchu documents (ff. 2635-40, ff. 2641-42).