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#281 - Qing 21: Kangxi & Galdan At Jao Modo, Their Eyes Red
The jaws of the Kangxi Emperor close in around Galdan Khan, as his own dream of "The Great Mongol Enterprise" crash down around him at a fateful stand of 100 trees abutting a tiny stream somewhere in the vastness of the steppes. To the victor go the draft histories...
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Time Period Covered
1696 CE
Major Historical Figures:
Qing Dynasty:
The Kangxi Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Xuanye) [r. 1654-1722]
Jean-Francois Gerbillon, Puritan Missionary
Tómas Pereira, Puritan Missionary
Gen. Fiyanggu
Gen. Sunsike
Dzungar Mongols:
Galdan, the Boshugtu Khan [r. 1679-1697]
Lamist Tibetans:
The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso [1683-after 1706]
sDe-pa Desi Sangye Gyampo [1653-1705]
Major Sources Cited:
Perdue, Denis. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.
Spence, Jonathan D. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi.
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#280 Qing 20: Kangxi & Galdan At Jao Modo, Their Faces Black
Galdan Khan has slipped The Kangxi Emperor’s trap, but only by the skin of his teeth. Now having retreated deep into the heart of Central Asia, he’ll think himself safe. But the Dread Lord of Great Qing is not one to let a vendetta go so easily…
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Time Period Covered
1691-1696 CE
Major Historical Figures:
Qing Dynasty:
The Kangxi Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Xuanye) [r. 1654-1722]
Jean-Francois Gerbillon, Puritan Missionary
Tómas Pereira, Puritan Missionary
Dzungar Mongols:
Galdan, the Boshugtu Khan [r. 1679-1697]
Lamist Tibetans:
The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso [1683- after 1706]
sDe-pa Desi Sangye Gyampo [1653-1705]
Major Sources Cited:
Perdue, Denis. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.
Spence, Jonathan D. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi.
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#279 - Qing 19: The Treaty of Nerchinsk
In an epic handshake of history, the Qing and Russian Empires hammer out the first major treaty between East and West. It's good for Great Qing, it's maybe good for Russia... but it's definitely not good for the Mongols who got iced out of the negotiations by a couple of Puritan hustlers, like Galdan Khan and his harried host of Dzungars. Not good news at all...
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Time Period Covered:
1690-91 CE
Major Historical Figures:
Qing Dynasty:
The Kangxi Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Xuanye) [r. 1654-1722]
Jean-Francois Gerbillon, Puritan Missionary
Tómas Pereira, Puritan Missionary
Russian Empire:
Count Fedor Alekseevich Golovin [1650-1706]
Mongols/Tibetans:
Lamist Tibetans:
The Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso [1617–1682]
Dzungar Mongols:
Galdan, the Boshugtu Khan [r. 1679-1697]
Khalkha Mongols:
Jebzongdanba Khutukhtu
Tusiyetu Khan
Chechen Khan
Tsewang Rabdan
Major Sources Cited:
Liu, Cixin. Death's End.
Munkh-Erdene, Lamsuren. The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State.
Perdue, Denis. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.
Thokmay, Darig. “Game Changers of the Tibetan Buddhist Political Order in Central Asia in the Early Eighteenth Century” in The Tibet Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1.
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Extra: Interview with Vince & Cassie of the Autocrat Podcast
A chat with Vince and Cassie of the Autocrat Podcast comparing and contrasting the Roman and Chinese origins and genesis legends, folktales, & mythos.
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#278 - Strange Tales IX.2: To Mortal Strife
A hefty second helping of weird, whimsical, wondrous, and wicked tales of the supernatural from the Zhou, Han, Liu Song, Yuan, and Qing Dynasties, for evenings when leaves quake from branches & the walls between the worlds grows thin.
0:00:00 - "Finishing Jiao's Poem" By: The One Within the Mound (Tr. Larry Hammer & Chris Stewart).
0:02:51 - "The Taoist Monk" Liaozhai Zhiyi, vol. 3.
0:09:57 - "A Report From the Qin Imperial Envoy At Xicheng, Gan Zong" Baopuzi.
0:11:33 - "The Ghoul" Shuyiji.
0:14:23 - "The Devil's Advocate" Liaozhai zhiyi, vol. 3.
0:21:57 - "REPORT: Flock of Bears Goes Rogue" Xu Yijian zhi.
0:23:13 - "The Face-Stealer" Shuyiji.
0:26:39 - "Manfox/Foxman" Liaozhai zhiyi, vol. 10.
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