China marches west is a comparative study of three empires in the making the manchu qing muscovite russia and mongolian zungharia perdue discusses the qing conquest of the mongolian no mads in great detail in part 1 the formation of the central eurasian states perdue emphasizes the regions four ecological zones tundra. China marches west the qing conquest of central eurasia by peter c perdue is about a century or so of qing chinese history spanning the qing conquests of mongolia xinjiang and tibet during the 17th and 18th centuries. China marches west the qing conquest of central eurasia by peter c perdue cambridge harvard university press 2005 pp xx 725 3500 mark elvin australian national university china marches west is the culmination of a research program on northwest china in qing times that has taken peter perdue many. Much less successful is the authors attempt to expand this china centered account into a broader history of early modern central eurasia as a whole any war of conquest has two sides and perdue recognizes that a complete history of the qing conquest will have to take account of the zunghar side as well