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Jüün Ghar → Dzungars – Dzungars is the (most common) English name for encyclopedic usage (e.g. Britannica, Encarta). It also matches Wikipedia usage of the Dzungars' territory, Dzungaria. LuiKhuntek 05:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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I am almost sure that the Jasaghtu Khan was an ally of the Zungars at the end of the 17th century. IIRC it was the conflict between the Tüsheet Khan and the Zasagt Khan that made the Zungars fight against the Khalkha (or, more precisely, against the Tüsheet and Setsen Khans). Yaan (talk) 12:14, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is incorrect to call the area ruled by the Dzungar people East Turkestan, because East Turkestan covers a different area. The Dzungar people ruled an area stretched from the west end of the Great Wall of China to present-day eastern Kazakhstan, and from present-day northern Kyrgyzstan to southern Siberia (as showed in the map). Xingjiang (as some people think it's equivalent of East Turkestan and also think they are equivalent of Dzungar) only covered part of this area.
Here's a map [[1]] of China in 1900, which showed the geographic locations of both Dzungar and East Turkestan. As it showed clearly on the map, Dzungar (Zungaria) means the area north of Tien Shan (Tian Mountain), East Turkestan means the area south of Tien Shan. This also explains the current demographic distribution in Xinjiang that most Uyghurs (Turkish people) live in South Xinjiang (south of the Tien Shan), while most Han Chinese, Hui Muslim Chinese and Mongolians live in North Xinjiang, although both areas are not homogeneous and are mixed to a degree with many other groups, but it's still quite noticeable. The other thing is that, as we can see on the map provided in this article, the Dzungars also occupied large areas west of Xinjiang outside of China. There's no doubt those area outside of Xingjiang were not called East Turkestan since they were not inhabited by Uyghurs. Further more, southeast part of Xinjiang was not ruled by Dzungars as showed on the map used in this article.
I am not even sure the name East Turkestan existed in the early 17th century since this area was a Mongolian ruled area. After more than 80% of Dzungars were killed by Manchu troops, the Qing government filled in the depopulated area with immigrants from many parts of their empire. Uyghurs became the largest group, but if that's what made the whole area East Turkestan, that should only happen after most of the Dzungars were killed. Then did it become filled by Uyghurs. Unless the word East Turkstan meant the southern Xijiang part which was not ruled by the Dzungars. Since the Dzungars are Mongolians, their land wouldn't be called Turkestan. If we want to use an ancient name of the place besides the current name, we should only use the name which was used at the time of the historical event. Therefore, I am going to remove the statement Dzungars lived in East Turkestan. Chadsnook (talk) 09:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just write they lived in Dzungaria.
OK, not 100% serious. Yaan (talk) 13:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I totally agree with the changes. Thanks, Chadsnook for picking this up, and apologies for my original mistake. I think "East Turkestan" was a somewhat fluid name in regards to what territory it covered - but it certainly does not seem to be appropriate here. I can't remember where I took it from - but it looks like I just repeated the statement from something I was reading at the time. Best wishes, John Hill (talk) 22:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I removed a reference (昭槤, 嘯亭雜錄, vol.3) to the work of the deposed Prince Zhao Lian. His claim that "3 out of 10 people died of illness, 3 out of 10 fled to Russia and Khazak, 5 out of 10 were killed by our army" is self-contradictory (3+3+5=11>10).Daltac (talk) 02:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
We have Dzungaria and Dzungar people but Zunghar Khanate. It would be nice to reconcile the various spellings into something consistent. Are there any established spelling conventions in Wikipedia that would determine which spelling is preferred? Bertport (talk) 16:26, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
During the Manchu wars with Galdan the Eleuth in 1696 (half a century after the Manchu conquest of China), Ye-r-kHn is stated to possess "20,000 of our Mussulman troops, sufficient to prevent Galdan from seeking to reach Kokonor via that route." The ruler of Yarkand was then Abdul Schid (or Seyid ?), who appears to have been taken prisoner by the Emperor, and subsequently to have been sent back honourably to his country, which had, together with Samarcand, Bokhara, the Pamirs, Issyk-Kul, Kashgar, etc., some time before been subdued by the Eleuths. In 1712 Ye-r-ken is mentioned with Bokhara as one of the cotton-producing regions, a point of importance to China in the manufacture of wadded armour. In 1719 Ye-r-ken and Kerya (near Khoten) are mentioned as being on the route of the Eleuth armies from Hi to Tibet. In 1745 a trade is mentioned between Yarkand (Ye-r-k'tang) and Ladakh. In 1755 Bulad Khodjo of Kashgar was employed by China to endeavour to obtain the surrender of Yarkand, to which place the To-lun* (? Taranchi) Mussulmans were moved in 1758 by Borhan-Uddin, grandson of Abdul. Both Kashgar and Yarkand surrendered to the victorious Chinese in 1759, and a commemorative stone— probably still there—was set up in Yarkand. The Yarkand oasis was then found to contain 27 towns, 30,000 houses, and over 100,000 souls. Its annual tribute, when subject to the domination of the Eleuths of Hi, was 100,000 denge,\ besides taxes or drafts on gold (from the Zerafshan, or "gold-bestowing" river), on cotton, piece-goods, leather, women, and animals. It now became the chief Manchu political centre, whence political negotiations were conducted with Kokand, Badakshan, and other places beyond the mountains. Ultimately the amban took
According to Lord Dunmore, at the time of the Arab conquests Kashgaria was styled by them " Turan," or " Mulki Tartar."
t One denge counted as 50 "cash" of red Yarkand copper. The Eleuths used to demand annually from Kashgar 40,898 padma (about 10,000 tons) of grain. The native coin called pur was one-fifth of a denge, and in it poll-taxes were paid.
The Asiatic Quarterly Review. Contributor Woking (England). Oriental University Institute. Oriental Institute. 1906. Retrieved 22 April 2014.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
Boulger, Demetrius Charles, ed. (1906). Asian Review. Contributors Oriental Institute (Woking, England), East India Association (London, England), Royal India, Pakistan, and Ceylon Society. East India Association and Royal India Pakistan and Ceylon Society. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
Asian Review. Contributors Oriental Institute (Woking, Surrey), East India Association (London, England), Royal India, Pakistan, and Ceylon Society (Great Britain). East & West. 1906. Retrieved 22 April 2014.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
The Dzungar Oirat Mongol Khan Galdan launched his invasion of the Tarim Basin in 1680. The Dzungars had received submissions from Hami and Turfan, who sent soldiers to join the 120,000 strong Dzungar Oirat Mongol force in the invasion. The Dzungar Oirat army and its allies in the White Mountain sect then easily conquered the Tarim, defeating and killing the Chagatai Prince Bābak Sultān, the son of the Chagatai leader Ismā'il Khan. Kashgar and Yarkand fell to the Dzungars and they killed the Chagatai General Yi-wa-zi-bo Beg. The Dzungars had deported to Ili the Chagatai royal family of Isma'il Khan after capturing them.[6]
The Chagatai royal 'Abdu'l Rashīd Khan II was selected as puppet ruler by Galdan, however, Āfāq Khoja soon caused trouble and the strife between Āfāq and 'Abdu'l Rashid led to Āfāq's second exile, and 'Abd'ul Rashid was also forced into exile in Ili after in Yarkand an outbreak of violence happened in 1682, and he was replaced by Muhammad Amin who was his younger brother. Qing China received tribute from Muhammad Amin via Turfan two times, in 1690s the Mughals received an embassy from him, and in 1691 Muhammad Amin asked for deliverance from the "Qirghiz infidels" (Dzungars) when the Khan Subhān Quli of Bukhara received his embassy, these were attempts by Muhammad Amin to ask these foreign countries (Qing China, Mughal India, and Bukhara) for assistance against the Dzungars to regain independence.[7]
The Āfāqi Khoja White Mountain supporters rebelled and murdered Muhammad Amin in 1694 and seized power under Yahyā Khoja, son of Āfāq Khoja, but Āfāqi rule continued for only two years before revolts resulted in the murder of both son and father Khojas. Muhammad Mu'min, another younger brother of 'Abdu'l Rashid was made Khan in 1696 however the Kashghar begs and the Kyrgyz staged a revolt and seized Muhammad Mu'min during an assault on Yarkand, then the Dzungars were asked to intervene by the Yarkand begs, which resulted in the Dzungars defeating the Kyrgyz and putting a total termination to Chagatai rule by installing Mirzā 'Ālim Shāh Beg as ruler in Yarkand.[8]
Since 1680 the Dzungars had ruled as suzerain masters over the Tarim, for 16 more years using the Chagatai as their puppet rulers. The Dzungars used a hostage arrangement to rule over the Tarim Basin, keeping as hostsges in Ili either the sons of the leaders like the Khojas and Khans or the leaders themselves. Although the Uighur's culture and religion was left alone, the Dzungars substantially exploited them economically .[9] The Uighurs were forced with multiple taxes by the Dzungars which were burdensome and set by a determined amount, and which they did not even have the ability to pay. They included water conservancy tax, draught animal tax, fruit tax, poll tax, land tax, tress and grass tax, gold and silver tax, and trade tax. Annually the Dzungars extracted a tax of 67,000 tangas of silver from the Kashgar people in Galdan Cering's reign, a five percent tax was imposed on foreign traders and a ten percent tax imposed on Muslim merchants, people had to pay a fruit tax if they owned orchards and merchants had to pay a copper and silver tax. Anually the Dzungars extracted 100,000 silver tangas in tax from Yarkand and slapped livestock, stain, commerce, and a gold tax on them. The Dzungars extracted 700 taels of gold, and also extracted cotton, copper, and cloth, from the six regions of Keriya, Kashgar, Khotan, Kucha, Yarkand, and Aksu as stated by Russian topographer Yakoff Filisoff. The Dzungars extracted over 50% of the wheat harvests of Muslims according to Qi-yi-shi (Chun Yuan), 30-40% of the wheat harvests of Muslims according to the Xiyu tuzhi, which labelled the tax as "plunder" of the Muslims. The Dzungars also extorted extra taxes on cotton, silver, gold, and traded goods from the Muslims besides making them pay the official tax. "Wine, meat, and women" and "a parting gift" were forcibly extracted from the Uighurs daily by the Dzungars who went to physically gather the taxes from the Uighur Muslims, and if they dissatisfied with what they received, they would rape women, and loot and steal property and livestock. Gold necklaces, diamonds, pearls, and precious stones from India were extracted from the Uighurs under Dāniyāl Khoja by Cewang Arabtan when his daughter was getting married.[10]
Uighurs known as "tariyachin" were enslaved and were involuntarily moved to Ili and other parts of Dzungaria to engage in agricultural work on farms by the Dzungars, and the Dzungars heavily punished Muslims who tried to run away, viewing the Uighurs as inferiors.[11] The Dzungars forced Turkic Muslim farmers who became their prisoners to move from southern Xinjiang (Altishahr) to northern Xinjiang (Dzungaria) to work on farms in Ili so that the Dzungars could benefit from the food grown at the farms. [12][13]
Labor of all sorts and high taxes were imposed on the Uighurs moved to Ili. The Uighur merchants (Bo-de-er-ge) played crucial roles in commerce as middlemen between foreigners and Dzungar nobility but even then the Dzungars viewed them as inferior and "as slaves". It was said by Qianlong that During the heyday of the Dzungars, they [the Uighurs] were made to work like slaves, forced to abandon their former dwellings to come to Ili and made to rechannel the water to plant paddy. They served and paid taxes without daring to slacken. For years they have been harbouring hatred![14]
It was mostly the Dzungar elite such as nobles, lamas, and officials who benefited from their looting of other peoples, eating well and being clothed well with spectacular temples being built, while the ordinary Dzungar herdsmen remained in poverty. It was a system of "racial and class oppression" by the Dzungars upon the common Uighurs, which led to Uighur opposition against Dzungar rule.[15]
The Qing defeat of the Dzungars went hand in hand with the anti-Dzungar resistance of the ordinary Uighurs, "many of them, unable to bear their misery, which was like living in a sea of fire, fled but were not able to find a place to settle peacefully." The Qing defeat of the Dzungars went hand in hand with the anti-Dzungar resistance of the ordinary Uighurs, "many of them, unable to bear their misery, which was like living in a sea of fire, fled but were not able to find a place to settle peacefully." The Uighurs carried out "acts of resistance" like hiding the goods which were collected as taxes or violently resisting the Dzungar Oirat tax collectors, but these incidents were infrequent and widespread anti-Dzungar opposition failed to materialize. Many opponents of Dzungar rule like Uighurs and some dissident Dzungars escaped and defected to Qing China during 1737-1754 and provided the Qing with intelligence on the Dzungars and voiced their grievances. 'Abdullāh Tarkhān Beg's and his Hami Uighurs defected and submitted to Qing China after the Qing inflicted a devastating defeat at Chao-mo-do on the Dzungar leader Galdan in September 1696.[16] The Uighur leader Emin Khoja (Amīn Khoja) of Turfan revolted against the Dzungars in 1720 while the Dzungars under Cewang Arabtan were being attacked by the Qing, and then he also defected and submitted to the Qing. The Uighurs in Kashgar under Yūsuf and his older brother Jahān Khoja of Yarkand revolted in 1754 against the Dzungars, but Jahān was taken prisoner by the Dzungars after he was betrayed by the Uch-Turfan Uighur Xi-bo-ke Khoja and Aksu Uighur Ayyūb Khoja. Kashgar and Yarkand were assaulted by 7,000 Khotan Uighurs under Sādiq, the son of Jahān Khoja. The Uighurs supported the 1755 Qing assault against the Uighurs in Ili, which occured at the same time as the Uighur revolts against the Dzungars. Uighurs like Emin Khoja, 'Abdu'l Mu'min and Yūsuf Beg supported the Qing attack against Davachi (Dawaji), the Dzungar Khan.[17] The Uch-Turfan UighurnBeg Khojis (Huojisi) supported the Qing General Ban-di against in tricking Davachi and taking him prisoner. The Qing and Amin Khoja and his sons worked together to defeat the Dzungars under Amursana.[18]
From the 17th century to the middle of the 18th century, between China proper and Transoxanua, all the land was under the sway of the Dzungar Mongols. In Semirechye the Kyrgyz and Kazakahs were forcibly driven out by the Dzungars and the Kashgar Khanate was conquered. However, the Dzungar Emprire was annihilated by Qing China from 1755-1758 in a formidable assault, ending the Central Asian states danger from the Dzungar menace.[19]
^The Asiatic Quarterly Review. Contributor Woking (England). Oriental University Institute. Oriental Institute. 1906. p. 32. Retrieved 1 April 2013.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
^Boulger, Demetrius Charles, ed. (1906). Asian Review. Contributors Oriental Institute (Woking, England), East India Association (London, England), Royal India, Pakistan, and Ceylon Society. East India Association and Royal India Pakistan and Ceylon Society. p. 32. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
^Asian Review. Contributors Oriental Institute (Woking, Surrey), East India Association (London, England), Royal India, Pakistan, and Ceylon Society (Great Britain). East & West. 1906. p. 32. Retrieved 1 April 2013.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
After the Dzungars were exterminated by the Qing Manchus, the Qing Manchus sent Han Chinese and Chinese Muslims (Hui) from Shaanxi and Gansu to settle along with Qing soldiers in garrisons in the Dzungar region in Xinjiang while Muslim local officials in the south governed the area for the Qing.[1]
Kaplan, Edward H.; Whisenhunt, Donald W.; Schwarz, Henry G. (1994). Kaplan, Edward H.; Whisenhunt, Donald W.; Schwarz, Henry G. (eds.). Opuscula Altaica: essays presented in honor of Henry Schwarz. Vol. Volume 19 of Studies on East Asia (illustrated ed.). Western Washington. ISBN0914584197. Retrieved 22 April 2014. ((cite book)): |volume= has extra text (help)