Help: Any info at all about Luoyang and Xi'an during the 19th century

Dorozhand

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I've been trying to find out anything at all about the state of these cities during the 19th century or the Qing period in general, but there seems to be an information black hole. I know these cities were in deep economic (and cultural?) decline during the Yuan, Ming and Qing periods, but they definitely continued to exist. Does anyone know where I can find literally anything about what these cities were like, what buildings were still standing, what officials were in charge, what people lived in them, etc. during the Qing period?

Literally the only piece of info I could find about Xi'an from after the Song period was the construction of a new city wall during the early Ming. Nothing at all about Luoyang from after Song. Was nothing written about them or am I not looking in the right places?
 
For Xi'an, I assume you could search on JSTOR or elsewhere about its Muslim population, which I'm assuming only really started developing after the Song or Yuan. In the process, you'd probably be able to get a bunch of info about Xi'an tangentially. Maybe look for accounts about the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia "Northwestern China" complex more generally-- one would assume the takeover of the region by the Tanguts in the 1100s probably led to some militarization of local city centers like Xi'an. The Qing conquest of Xinjiang probably also involved supply trains, troop movements, etc. through the Xi'an-Lanzhou area. This is all just guesswork, as I'm not particularly knowledgeable on the subject myself, but you get the idea: find monographs/studies about big events near Xi'an or its hinterland, and then see if they discuss any resulting changes within Xi'an. Best case scenario, there will be something in the references that discusses the city in even greater detail.

For Luoyang... I got nothing. Seems like old imperial capitals die pretty hard when trade and government shift elsewhere.
 
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