Crossley, Pamela K. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. (Berkeley, 1999).

Crossley, Pamela Kyle, Helen Siu and Donald Sutton, eds. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. The first section deals with relations on China’s western frontier. Essays by Jonathan Lipman on legal status and James Millward and Laura Newby on the Qing and Islam are of particular interest.

Crossley, Pamela K. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. (Berkeley, 1999).

Levi, Scott C. “The Ferghana Valley at the Crossroads of World History: The Rise of Khoqand, 1709–1822,” Journal of Global History No. 2(2007): pp. 213–232.  A very interesting and readable study of the economic and cultural position of Kokand in Asia, based on new work in primary sources. Great for undergraduates.

Millward, James A. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Colombia University Press, 2007. The only survey of Xinjiang history, based on extensive knowledge of primary sources. Can be very dense reading for undergraduates.

Millward, James. Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759–1864. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.  A highly detailed, well-written, and accessible study.

Newby, Laura J. The Empire and the Khanate: a Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand, c. 1760–1860.  Leiden: Brill, 2005. A ground-breaking cross-border history, but far too expensive for classroom use.

Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: the Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Beautifully produced, with many color plates.