| 英文摘要 |
Focusing on the first fascicle of the Qianlong court’s Illustrations of Tributary Peoples職貢圖, the present article examines the composition and ordering of entries concerning the Western Regions, particularly the pivotal position occupied by the Ili Oirat peoples and the Muslim cities of Huibu回部, exploring how certain groups, which should in principle have been classified under the Eight Banners or the Qing dynasty Fanbu藩部, the empire’s Inner Asian dependencies, rather than tributary polities, were incorporated into the visual system of tributary representation. By cross-referencing the Illustrations of Tributary Peoples with other visual and textual materials, including court-produced materials, related maps of the Western Regions, and Manchu-language documents, the Qing’s reorganization of knowledge and territorial order in the aftermath of campaigns in the Western Regions is traced. This article argues that the presented Ili Oirat and Muslim cities had already become entries in the Imperially Revised and Enlarged Mirror of the Manchu Language御製增訂清文鑑under“Pacification of the Dzungar Oirats”平定準噶爾厄魯特and“Pacification of the Muslims”平定回子, thereby indicating that their status had shifted from foreign or tributary polities to banner-affiliated and frontier-dependent subjects of the empire despite continuing to be arranged within the former. This“transgressive”form of compilation allowed the Illustrations of Tributary Peoples both to continue the tradition of tributary imagery and to document the pacification of the Dzungar peoples and the consolidation of the Western Regions, marking a“Western Regions/Inner Asian turn”in Qing imperial representation. By magnifying the visual prominence of these groups and cities, the Dzungar Khanate was effectively erased as an independent political entity and historical subject, surviving only as internalized banner divisions and Fanbu categories within the territorial imagination of“China”and imperial memory. |