Abstract:
As the Qing troops occupied Central China and conquered the Western Regions, radical changes happened to the geopolitics of northwestern China in the early and middle Qing Dynasty. The confrontation and coexistence between the central power and national minorities was gradually broken, and a new geopolitical pattern of the Qing government uniformly controlled northwestern China was taking shape. After the Qing unification of northwestern China, northwestern minorities, especially the Hui, Uygur and the like gradually grew into independent geopolitical actors, started to continuously intensify their influence on northwestern geopolitical pattern, and exercised profound influence on the orientation of northwestern geopolitics in the late Qing Dynasty and period of the Republic of China.
