#284 - Qing 23: Frozen Ashes

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Galdan is dead. Kangxi's victory is total. It's all over but the crying. ... and the executions via slow-slicing... and the crushing of his bones... and the punishment of his family... and the writing him out of history... Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Time Period Covered: 1697-8 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6	Episode 284, Frozen Ashes Now Galton is dead, and his followers, and ashes.
0:59.7	Now Galton is dead, and his followers have come back to our allegiance.
1:03.1	My great task is done.
1:15.0	In two years, I made three journeys, across deserts combed by wind and bathed with rain, eating every other day in the barren and uninhabited deserts. One could have called it a hardship, but I never called it that. People all shun
1:22.7	such things, but I did not shun them. The constant journeying and hardship has led me to this great achievement.
1:31.2	I would never have done such a thing had it not been for Galdan.
1:36.6	Now, heaven, earth, and ancestors have protected me and brought me this achievement.
1:43.7	As for my own life, one can say it is happy.
1:48.0	One can say it is fulfilled. One can say I have what I wanted.
1:55.0	In a few days in the palace, I shall tell you all about it myself.
2:03.6	It is hard to tell it with brush and ink.
2:06.1	These are just the main points.
2:15.0	The Kangxi Emperor in a letter to Guuan Xing on the 17th day of the fourth lunar month, 1697.
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