Qi Yunshi's Essentials of the Dependent Territories
A Qing annalistic history of how each Mongol, Oirat, Tibetan and Muslim region came under the dynasty.
Full title Essentials of the Dependent Territories of the Reigning Dynasty (Inner and Outer Mongols, Oirats, Qinghai, Tibet, Muslim regions), with genealogical tables
皇朝藩部要略; 皇朝藩部世系表
Qi Yunshi (1751-1815); edited and printed by Zhang Mu 1839-1846
Qi Yunshi (1751 to 1815), an archivist of the Grand Secretariat, compiled this work about 1807, arranged as annals for 1583 to 1795 with genealogical tables. Zhang Mu edited and printed it between 1839 and 1846. It covers Inner and Outer Mongolia, the Oirats and Dzungaria, Qinghai, Tibet and the Muslim regions. The card calls it the Qing definition of the dependencies that European maps labelled Chinese Tartary. The atlas holds only a poor-quality machine reading (OCR) of this scan, and no passages were selected or read for this guide.
- How they knew
- Compiled from others
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The card names the Khalkha, Chakhar, Khorchin, the Oirats (Dzungar, Torghut, Khoshut), Tibetans and Turkic Muslims. It ties the work to the regions European maps labelled Chinese Tartary.
- Why read it
- It gives the Qing administrative view, group by group, of the territories that European maps lumped together as Tartary.
- Watch out
- It is a digest of official records, and Zhang Mu's edition adds corrections. The card says Qi Yunshi's Xichui yaolue of 1807 was not found open.
What it says
No quotes from this one yet. Its text is out of reach for now, or the scan could not be read.
The fine print
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
official-archival compilation by a Grand Secretariat archivist who had worked on the Menggu Huibu wanggong biaozhuan, arranged as annals 1583-1795
Research notes
- Digest of the Waifan Menggu Huibu wanggong biaozhuan and shilu; Zhang Mu's edition adds corrections. Qi Yunshi's Xichui yaolüe (1807) not located open.
Why it matters
Annalistic Qing account of the submission of each Mongol and Oirat group with genealogies: the Qing administrative definition of 'the dependencies' that European maps labelled Chinese Tartary.
Places named
Mongolia (Inner and Outer); Dzungaria; Qinghai; Tibet; Xinjiang Muslim regions
Peoples named
Khalkha; Chakhar; Khorchin; Oirats (Dzungar, Torghut, Khoshut); Tibetans; Turkic Muslims; Qing