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Article name	Dilemmas of the Qing Migration Policy in Frontier Hulun-Buir: Case Study of the Muslim Taranchi–Uyghurs’ Replacement
Authors	Namsaraeva S.B.Candidate of History, Associate Professor, sn444@cam.ac.uk
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UDK	94 (510). 08+572.9
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Annotation	Ethnic composition of Hulun-Buir (China’s frontier region with Russian Eastern Siberia) was formed and constantly reshaped during the last three centuries. For example, Qing officials relocated ethnically hybrid Manchu-Mongol banner troops into the region to serve the border. The case of relocation of Taranchi’– Uyghurs examined in the paper shows that an attempt to vary local ‘banner’ population by ‘non-banner’ land cultivators, was considered by Qing officials as abortive and nonperspective. This paper is based on recently published Qing archival sources and investigates why Hulun-Buir continued to develop as ‘frontier of exclusion’ (expression introduced by Owen Lattimore) [14, p. 377], where trade and economic development have been neglected due to proximity of the Russian border. The author examines different models of the continental colonial administration with the example of Qing policy in frontier regions, and specifically focuses on complicities of the Russian-Chinese frontier in Hulun-Buir.
Key words	continental colonialism, Russian-Chinese frontier, Qing Empire, China frontiers and borderland, ethnic composition of Hulun-Buir, Qing banner troops, policy of forced migration, ‘Taranchi’– Uyghurs
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