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Chinese Turkestan

Not to be confused with East Turkestan. For the Chinese province-level division that corresponds to the general region, see Xinjiang.
A 1901 map showing the areas around Chinese Turkestan.

Chinese Turkestan, also spelled Chinese Turkistan,[1] is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole[2][3] which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China. It is considered a part of the Chinese Tartary that covered the Inner Asian regions ruled by the Qing dynasty. The Europeans commonly used this term especially during the period of the Qing dynasty to denote the division of Turkestan into territories controlled by the Chinese and the Russians, with the latter controlling Russian Turkestan in the west.

  1. ^ A Short History of Chinese Turkistan. Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir. 1981.
  2. ^ Share, Michael B. (2015). "The Great Game Revisited: Three Empires Collide in Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang)". Europe-Asia Studies. 67 (7): 1102–1129. doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1067075. JSTOR 24537108. S2CID 153350010. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  3. ^ Sinha, Dilip. "Xinjiang – China's new territory or East Turkestan?". The Times of India. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

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