| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 725. $35.00.

In this massive and beautifully illustrated volume, Peter C. Perdue has produced the first broad survey in a Western language in virtually a century of the Qing dynasty's protracted wars against the Zunghars, a branch of the Oirats or western Mongols ensconced in what is now far northwest China. It was these wars that produced the China we see on the map today, including Xinjiang and Tibet. Numerous maps and lavish illustrations, many in color, from new and historic photographs, paintings, and woodcuts contribute to the immediate appeal of this weighty tome. As an account of how China defeated the Zunghars and how the Qing dynasty secured its conquest of the eastern part of Central Eurasia, this ground-breaking book will be read by both specialists evaluating the arguments and by students needing an introduction to this important topic. Perdue, however, evidently hoped to produce something more: a rewriting of Inner Asian (what he calls Central Eurasian) history in the context of both Chinese nationalist historiography and recent world historical debates. In this enterprise, his success is less evident.

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