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V. Kashghar and the Politics of Central Asia, 1868–1878

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

V. G. Kiernan
V. G. Kiernan
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Lecturer in Modern History in the University of Edinburgh
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Chinese Tartary or Turkestan, or what has been since 1884 the ‘New Province’ of Sinkiang, is an irregular thousand-mile long tract in the heart of Asia, shut in on three sides by mountains and on the east by vast deserts. That it should still be in China's possession today, after a century in which so many of her outlying dependencies were shorn away, is one of the facts of modern history that it would have been most rash to predict.

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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , 1955 , pp. 317 - 342
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31 Bellew, Kashmir and Kashghar, p. xiv; Parl. Papers, 1868–69, XLVI, ‘Eastern Turkestan’, p. 57; Wade to Lord Tenterden, Conf., 4 June 1877, F.O. 17 (China) 825, P.R.O. Henderson and Hume, op. cit. p. 143, were among those who believed that trade could readily be expanded. For other accounts of the caravan routes see Thomson, T., Western Himalaya and Tibet (1852), p. 410Google Scholar, and Drew, F., The Jumtnoo and Kashmir Territories (1875), pp. 539–44Google Scholar. At Leh in 1945 I met the very friendly Chinese officer, Major S. S. Chiu, in charge of caravans conveying war stores to China.

32 Parl. Papers, 1878, lxxx, ‘Central Asia, no. 1’, pp. 170, 171, 176–7.

33 Edinburgh Review, April 1868, pp. 392–6. A parallel problem was offered by the ‘Panthays’, or Muslim rebels of south-west China, who for some years seemed able to found a regular State, and with whom some contacts were made from India in the late sixties.

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37 Govt. of India to Govt. of Panjab, 6 Jan. 1871: Parl. Papers, 1871, Li, ‘Yarkand (Forsyth's Mission)’, pp. 45–7.

38 Two Englishmen, Stoddart and Connolly, had been murdered in Bokhara.

39 W. W. Hunter, op. cit. 1, pp. 303, 271, 299.

40 Parl. Papers, 1871, li, ‘Yarkand (Forsyth's Mission)’, pp. 19 ff., and Forsyth, Autobiography, p. 88.

41 Parl. Papers, ibid. ‘Yarkand (Forsyth's Mission)’, p. 22.

42 Ibid. p. 3.

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46 Shaw says that the Kashgharian envoy in 1871 had several interviews with Mayo at Calcutta and requested a British mission; Proc.R.G.S. xvi (1872), p. 407.

47 Kuropatkin, op. cit. pp. 61–2, with text of the treaty.

48 Part. Papers, 1878, lxxx, ‘Central Asia, no. 1 ’, pp. 205–6.

49 For the text of the Russian treaty with Khiva of Aug. 1873, and the British warning to Russia not to advance further, see Parl. Papers 1874, lxxvi, ‘Russia, no. 2’.

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52 Report, p. 16.

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54 Shaw, M, Bellew, , Henderson, , Hume, , and Gordon, T. E. (The Roof of the World, 1876)Google Scholar all accompanied one or other of the Forsyth missions. Half of the annual gold medals of the Royal Geographical Society in these seven or eight years went to explorers of E. Turkestan.

55 Forsyth, Autobiography, p. 77.

56 Boulger, op. cit. pp. 229–31; cp. pp. 203–4.

57 Trotter, in J.R.G.S. xlviii (1878), p. 228.

58 Quoted in Forsyth, Autobiography, p. 206.

59 Parl. Papers. 1878, LXXX, ‘Central Asia, no. 1 ’, p. 14.

60 Obituary of R. B. Shaw by Lord Northbrook, Proc.R.G.S. 1 (n.s.), 1879, p. 524.

61 Part. Papers, 1878, lxxx, ‘Central Asia, no. 1’, pp. 14, 15, 17, 24–5, 69.

62 Balfour, Lady Betty, The History of Lord Lytton's Indian Administration, 1876 to 1882 (1899), p. 35Google Scholar. A Russian officer in Turkestan in 1877 made a similar complaint to Burnaby; Burnaby, op. cit. p. 143. A correspondence in the Tenterden Papers (F.O. 363/1) shows that both the Commander-in-Chief and the India Office were annoyed with Burnaby himself for helping to arouse Russian suspicions. Cp. Sumner, B. H., Russia and the Balkans 1870–1880 (1937), P. 56Google Scholar. Indian mercenaries and exiles did serve in Yakub's army (on which see Kuropatkin, op. cit. ch. vii); Forsyth heard orders being given in English (Autobiography, p. 178).

63 The Times, 17 July 1877.

64 Report, p. 11.

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71 Wade to Forsyth, and Indian Govt. to Wade, enclosed with Wade to Derby, no. 136, 8 July 1876, F.O. 17/825. Cp. Wade to Tenterden, pte., 19 May 1877: ‘I was at some pains in 1870 to explain to the Chinese that our relations with Yacoob (then only Beg) were commercial and that all we required was a set of commercial rules for the regulation of trade in and across Kashgaria’ (F.O. 363/4). In China mandarins went on being gazetted to the official hierarchy of Turkestan as if the province had never been lost (see article ‘Eastern Turkestan’ in Edinburgh Review, April 1874, pp. 307–8).

72 On Tso Tsung-t'ang (1812–85) see the article by Tu Lien-chê in Hummel, A. W., Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1943)Google Scholar.

73 As late as 1888 a traveller found unrest still smouldering among the Muslims of Kansu (Rockhill, W. W., Land of the Lamas (1891), pp. 28, 39Google Scholar).

74 See description of t he route by Col. M. S. Bell, who claimed to be the first European to travel its whole length, in Proc.R.G.S. xii (n.s.), 1890.

75 Prejevalsky, Mongolia, 11, pp. 130–3.

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78 Wade to Derby, no. 136, 8 July 1876, F.O. 17/825.

79 Fraser (charg' d'affaires, Peking) to Tenterden, pte., 22 July 1876, F.O. 363/1.

80 Boulger, , [The Life of Sir] Halliday Macartney [K.C.M.G.] (1908), p. 257Google Scholar. A writer in England argued that if Russia should wish to quarrel with China over Kashghar, ‘we neither can nor need do much to say her nay’ (Partridge, J. A., The Policy of England in Relation to India and the East (1877), p. 74Google Scholar).

81 Papers on the question of a loan in F.O. 17/825, 826.

82 Forsyth to Wade, 9 April 1876, and other enclosures (as above), with Wade to Derby, no. 136 of 1876.

83 Boulger, Yakoub Beg, pp. 238–40, 275.

84 Memo, by Wade, 15 Sept. 1876, F.O. 17/825.

85 Memo, by Mayers, 9 Dec. 1876, F.O. 17/825.

86 Wade to Derby, 5 Mar. 1877, F.O. 17/825. Loftus (op. cit. II, pp. 46 ff.) had never been a believer in the theory of Russian designs against India.

87 Loftus to Derby, no. 332, 26 June 1877, F.O. 65/967.

88 India Office to F.O., 23 Feb. 1877, F.O. 17/825.

89 Memos. by P. Currie, 24 Mar. 1877, and Tenterden, 27 Mar. 1877, with minutes by Derby, F.O. 17/825.

90 Memo, by Wade, 26 Mar. 1877, and Wade to Tenterden, Conf., 4 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

91 F.O. to India Office, 16 Apr. 1877, F.O. 17/825.

92 Sumner, op. cit. pp. 308–9.

93 Cowling, M., ‘War against Russia. A suppressed episode of 1876–7’, Manchester Guardian, 16 July 1954Google Scholar.

94 Tenterden to Layard, pte., 21 June 1877, F.O. 363/2.

95 Kuropatkin, op. cit. pp. 180–2, 4–5.

96 Ibid. Introduction.

97 Fraser to Derby, tg. cyph., 1 May 1877, F.O. 17/825.

98 Foreign Dept., Simla, to India Office, no. 24, Secret, 16 July 1877, and enclosed report from Fraser, F.O. 17/825.

99 From Kulja across the Tian Shan to Lob Nor, pp. 127–8, 133.

100 Boulger, op. cit. p. 248.

101 See article on Kuo by Tu Lien-chê in Hummel, op. cit. Boulger (Halliday Macartney, p. 282) says that ‘During the whole of the summer of 1877 the Chinese envoys were the lions of the season’. He is wrong in supposing (p. 302) that Kuo's activity in London was purely ornamental.

102 Wade to Tenterden, 19 May 1877, F.O. 363/4.

103 Wade to Derby, Conf., 24 May 1877, F.O. 17/825.

104 Wade to Derby, Conf., 26 May 1877, F.O. 17/825.

105 Forsyth to Wade, Conf., 3 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

106 India Office to F.O., Secret, 8 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

107 Wade to Tenterden, Conf., 4 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

108 Memo. of 12 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

109 India Office to F.O., 14 June 1877, and Derby to Wade, 18 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

110 Wade to Derby, 25 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

111 Forsyth to Wade, 23 June 1877, F.O. 17/825.

112 India Office to F.O., Conf., 2 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

113 D.N.B. (Rev. F. Sanders).

114 Wade to Tenterden, 29 June 1877, F.O. 363/4.

115 Derby to Kuo, 7 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

116 India Office to F.O., Secret and Immediate, 7 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

117 Wade to Tenterden, 8 July 1877, F.O. 363/4.

118 Wade to Tenterden, 10 July 1877, F.O. 363/4.

119 Kuo to Derby, 12 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

120 Memo. by Hillier, 14 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

121 Derby to Kuo, 23 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

122 Wade to Derby, 25 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

123 The Times, 16 July 1877, p. 5, col. 5.

124 Boulger, Yakoub Beg, pp. 250 ff.

125 Derby to Fraser, no. 90, 3 Aug. 1877, F.O. 17/825.

126 Fraser to Derby, tg. cyph., 27 Sept. 1877, and no. 172, Conf., 24 Sept. 1877, F.O. 17/825.

127 Extract from Russian World, with India Office to F.O., 28 July 1877, F.O. 17/825.

128 Schuyler, op. cit. 11, p. 325; Kuropatkin, op. cit. p. 78.

129 Fraser, no. 172 as above.

130 Article Tso Tsung-t'ang, see n. 72 above.

131 Fraser to Derby, tg. cyph., 13 Oct. 1877, F.O. 17/825.

132 Forsyth, introd. to Prejevalsky, op. cit. p. 11; Kuropatkin, op. cit. pp. 250–4. Russian Press accounts are enclosed with Loftus to Derby, no. 571, 23 Oct. 1877, F.O. 65/969. Dunmore, Lord, The Pamirs (1894), I, pp. 317 ff.Google Scholar, supports the theory that Yakub was poisoned; Hedin, Sven, Through Asia (1899), p. 862Google Scholar, gives a circumstantial poisoning story; Kuropatkin (op. cit. pp. 248–9) was told that he had been knocked on the head in a brawl.

133 Cordier, H., Relations de la Chine avec les Puissances Occidentales (1901), 11, p. 177Google Scholar; cp. Fraser to Derby, no. 41 Conf., 7 Mar. 1878, F.O. 17/826, and translation of a Chinese narrative with Hance, Acting Consul at Tientsin, to Lord Salisbury, Foreign Secretary, no. 19, 27 June 1878, ibid.

134 Fraser to Salisbury, no. 105 Conf., 22 June 1878, F.O. 17/826.

135 Quoted in Fraser to Salisbury, no. iii, 27 June 1878, F.O. 17/826.

136 Dunmore, op. cit. ii, p. 223, describes the tomb as he saw it a few years later. Stein, Aurel, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan (1903), pp. 135–7Google Scholar, describes the temple built near it by the Chinese to their victorious general.

137 Copy with Hance to Tenterden, 27 May 1878, F.O. 17/826; a similar memorial by Tso, obtained ‘indirectly’ and copied ‘hurriedly’, is with Fraser to Salisbury, no. 8, 13 March 1879, ibid. One of Boulger's objects in writing his Yakoub Beg was to exhibit ‘the great merits of China as a governing power’ (p. viii). F. E. Younghusband considered that the Chinese had set up ‘a rule remarkable for its mildness’ (Proc.R.G.S. x (n.s.), 1888, p. 502; cp. his The Heart of a Continent (1904), ch. vi, and pp. 270 ff.). But the old China was running down, in this as in other fields. Cobbold (op. cit. pp. 58, 287) thought her régime here good for agriculture, but otherwise ‘nothing else but plain and open robbery’.

138 Elias's report with Foreign Dept., Simla, to India Office, no. 228, Secret, 6 Nov. 1879, F.O. 17/826. Some Russian Press reports, highly critical of Chinese behaviour and representing the natives as longing for liberation by Russia, are quoted in Parl. Papers 1880, lxxviii, ‘Central Asia, no. 1’, pp. 14, 42–3. A Russian who explored in 1879–80 from Kulja to Turfan wrote similarly (trans, in Proc.R.G.S. iii (n.s.), 1881, pp. 340–52).

139 Sumner, op. cit. pp. 479, 513–14; Malleson, op. cit. p. 450. Lord Lytton broke off negotiations with Afghanistan in March.

140 Andrew, P., Our Scientific Frontier (1880), p. 95Google Scholar.

141 See the Duke of Argyll, The Eastern Question (1879), ch. xviii, for a criticism of this Afghan policy.

142 18 July 1877, p. 9, cols. 4–5.

143 Cp. the article ‘Kuldja’ in Proc.R.G.S. 11 (n.s.), 1880, pp. 489 ff.

144 De Geofroy to Waddington, Foreign Minister, no. 41, 29 Jan. 1879; Japon, Corr. Politique, vol. 27, Archives of the Foreign Ministry, Paris.

145 Text of the treaty in Parl. Papers 1882, lxxx, ‘China, no. 1.’ Frontier demarcation was still in progress several years later; see Proc.R.G.S. ix (n.s.), 1887, p. 508.

146 von Le Coq, A., Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan (trans. Barwell, A., 1928), p. 112 n.Google Scholar; cp. Hartmann, op. cit. p. ii, Cobbold, op. cit. pp. 254, 288, and Deasy, H. H. P., In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan (1901), pp. 291 ff., 354Google Scholar.

147 The post was soon filled by George Macartney, son of Sir Halliday, who still held it (1910–18) when it became a consulate-general.

148 Sir R. Hart, Inspector-General of Customs, Peking, to Sir J. Pauncefote, Under-Secretary, 28 Mar. 1886, F.O. 17/1062.

149 Memo. by G. E. P. Hertslet, 19 Sept. 1901, F.O. 17/1583: China Tariff Commission Archives, vol. xi. In these negotiations leading to the Anglo-Chinese treaty of Sept. 1902 it was decided not to introduce any but minor questions affecting Kashgharia (Lord Lansdowne to Sir J. Mackay, Special Commissioner at Shanghai, no. 3, 2 Oct. 1901, ibid.). Already in 1889 Bell had found Russian trade much more active than British (Proc.R.G.S. 1890, p. 92).

150 13 May 1878; Proc.R.G.S. xxii, 1877–78, pp. 288–91.

151 Economist, 21 Dec. 1878, p. 1487. Some doubting Thomases remained; Vambéry argued in the Nineteenth Century (June 1900, pp. 925–6) that Kashghar had been overthrown by internal faction, not by ‘the disorderly rabble, called Chinese Army’.