#279 - Qing 19: The Treaty of Nerchinsk

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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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... Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the history of China
0:43.3	Episode 278
0:49.4	The Treaty of Narchensk
0:52.2	I am a tomb.
0:58.4	Whose tomb is this?
1:00.9	The tomb of those who created it.
1:04.7	Is this a spaceship?
1:07.6	It used to be a spaceship, but now it is dead, and so it's a tomb.'
1:13.5	"'Who are you? Who is conversing with us?'
1:17.6	"'I am the tomb. It is the tomb speaking to you. I'm dead.'
1:23.6	"'You mean you're a ship whose crew died?
1:28.1	"'In other words, you're the control system for the ship?'
1:31.3	"'There was no reply to this.
1:35.1	"'We can see many other objects in this region of space.
1:38.6	"'Are they also tombs?'
1:40.8	"'Most of them are tombs.
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