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Hello. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 298, Echoes of the Erased It is the early summer of the erased.

It is the early summer of 1755.

Across the vast, arid highlands of Central Asia,

the winds sweep unbroken across the step.

These planes have long echoed with hoofbeats,

home to mobile empires,

Khans, and chieftains,

wandering monks, and mounted warriors.

Here lies Jungaria, the heartland of the last great nomadic empire, the Jungar Khanate.

But by the mid-18th century, the Jungars were in crisis. Civil war had torn through their nobility.

Foreign powers had encircled their own frontiers.

And now, the most formidable empire in East Asia had set its sights on their utter destruction.

Today, we get into the story of how a complex society built on horseback, ritual, and warfare,

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