Humanities and Social Sciences | Article | Published 2024
The main aim of this article is to explore what motives were behind the Qing engagements with Central Asia in XIII-XIXth centuries. Why did the Qing expand into West China, former East Turkıstan? Did they seek resources, security, a commercial market, agricultural lands, or were there perhaps an ideological reason behind its Silk trade Road towards West? The Qing trade road led through Turfan and Kokonor but after invasion Qing towards the Eastern Turkestan in the middle of the eighteenth century that the roads extended from Hami and Turfan to Urumchi and Kashgar but through Kashgar roads that the trades linked with Ozbek khanates/states.