6th International Symposium Oriental Studies

13 The 6 th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies Erkin Awghaly A Study on a Kazakh Document about Ablay Khan in Qing Dynasty The famous Kazakh Middle Jüz Khan Ablay died in 1780 (in the 45 th year of Qianlong). No historical documents about the incident have been found in the Kazakh language. However, the Chagatai manuscript about the incident was found among the cases recorded in dossiers in the First Historical Ar‑ chive. The document is about Middle Jüz’s dispatching of envoys to the Qing government after Ablay Khan’s death, which was written by Ablay Khan’s successors as an official document. This paper deals with the translation and the interpretation of the document. Key words: the Qing dynasty, Kazakh documents, Ablay Khan, Middle Jüz.