Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)

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Qing empire expedition to Tibet (1720)
Part of
Dzungar–Qing War

"General of settle the distant" enter Lhasa during the expedition.
Date1720
Location
Tibet
Result Qing conquest of Tibet
Dzungars expelled from Tibet
Belligerents
Qing Empire
Polhanas (ally of Qing)
Kangchennas (ally of Qing)		 Dzungar Khanate
Commanders and leaders
Kangxi Emperor
Yue Zhongqi[1] (descendant of Yue Fei)
Polhané Sönam Topgyé
Khangchenné		 Tagtsepa
Strength
Eight Banners
Green Standard Army
Dzungar–Qing War

The 1720 Chinese expedition to Tibet (Chinese: 驅準保藏; lit. 'Expel the Dzungars to preserve Tibet'[2]) or the Chinese conquest of Tibet in 1720[3] was a military expedition sent by the Qing dynasty to expel the invading forces of the Dzungar Khanate from Tibet and establish Qing rule over the region, which lasted until the empire's fall in 1912.

History

The

Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso, the pretender to the position of Dalai Lama of Lha-bzang Khan, who was the last ruler of the Khoshut Khanate, and killed Lhazang Khan and his entire family. They also destroyed a small force at the Battle of the Salween River, which the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing empire had sent to clear traditional trade routes in 1718.[5] In response, an expedition sent by the Kangxi Emperor, together with Tibetan forces under Polhanas of Tsang and Kangchennas (also spelled Gangchenney), the governor of Western Tibet,[6][7] expelled the Dzungars from Tibet in 1720 as patrons of the Khoshut and liberators of Tibet from the Dzungars. The Qing installed a new, more popular Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso, as the 7th Dalai Lama and left behind a garrison of 3,000 men in Lhasa. In time, the Qing came to see themselves as overlords of Tibet[8] and Tibet was turned into a protectorate by the Manchus.[9] The Qing removed the indigenous civil government that had existed in Lhasa since the rule of the 5th Dalai Lama, and created a Tibetan cabinet or council of ministers known as the Kashag in 1721. This council was to govern Tibet under the close supervision of the Chinese garrison commander stationed in Lhasa, who frequently interfered with Kashag decisions, especially when Chinese interests were involved.[10] Khangchenné would be the first ruling prince to lead the Kashag under Qing overlordship. This began the period of Qing administrative rule of Tibet
, which lasted until the fall of the Qing empire in 1912.

At multiple places such as Lhasa, Batang, Dartsendo, Lhari, Chamdo, and Litang, Green Standard troops were garrisoned throughout the Dzungar war.[11] Green Standard Army troops and Manchu Bannermen were both part of the Qing force who fought in Tibet in the war against the Dzungars.[12] It was said that the Sichuan commander Yue Zhongqi (a descendant of Yue Fei) entered Lhasa first when the 2,000 Green Standard soldiers and 1,000 Manchu soldiers of the "Sichuan route" seized Lhasa.[13] According to Mark C. Elliott, after 1728 the Qing used Green Standard Army troops to man the garrison in Lhasa rather than Bannermen.[14] According to Evelyn S. Rawski both Green Standard Army and Bannermen made up the Qing garrison in Tibet.[15] According to Sabine Dabringhaus, Green Standard Chinese soldiers numbering more than 1,300 were stationed by the Qing in Tibet to support the 3,000 strong Tibetan army.[16]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-295-98952-5
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  2. ^ 孔令偉. "西藏為何重要？──從清朝對西藏、喜馬拉雅與印度的情報蒐集談起" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 中研院歷史語言研究所.
  3. ^ China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, by Peter C Perdue, p623
  4. ^ René Grousset, The empire of the Steppes, New Brunswick 1970, p. 522
  5. ^ Mullin 2001, p. 288
  6. ^ Mullin 2001, p. 290
  7. ISBN 978-0-8133-3280-2
    p. 125
  8. ^ A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, by Spencer C. Tucker, p726
  9. ^ A time-line of Tibet
  10. ^ China's Tibet Policy, by Dawa Norbu, p76
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  12. ISBN 978-0-295-98952-5
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  13. ISBN 978-0-295-98952-5
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  14. ISBN 978-0-8047-4684-7
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  15. ISBN 978-0-520-92679-0
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  16. ISBN 978-90-04-27209-5
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