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Using Chinese and Mongolian folk documents preserved in NCAM and MTAC,this papershows how illegal Han Chinese settlers from Shanxi and Zhili secured their families and propertyin the Great Shabi,a Mongolian Buddhist institution,to escape state surveillance.Those Hansettlers arrived in Mongolia and stayed there for decades.They knew Mongolian speaking andwriting,had Mongolian names and herds,lived in Mongolian yurt,married Mongolian women,identified their children as Mongols.Before they died or went back to China proper,they evendonated their family members and property to the Great Shabi,as other Mongols did.Theresponse of Qing state to this practice was rather late and might not be aware of its full picture.This paper argues that those Han Chinese settlers had been socio-culturally mongolized first andtheir descendants ultimately naturalized and managed to be fully integrated into Mongol society.They crossed the geographic,ethnic and legal boundaries prescribed by the Qing regime.Theyevaded the Qing state within it by resorting a non-Han institution and authority.