#299 - Qing 34: Remember to Remember to Forget You Forgot Me

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This was no peace borne of reconciliation; this was silence, enforced by amnesia. Time Period Covered: ~ 1739-1759 CE Major Historical Figures: Qing Empire: The Qianlong Emperor (Aisin Gioro Hongli) [r. 1735–1796] Minister Fuheng General Bandi [d. 1755] General Yongchang Khalka Mongols: Prince Erinchindorj [d. 1756] Prince Chingünjav [d. 1757] Dzungar Mongols: Amursana [d. 1757] Major Sources Cited: Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Woodside, Alexander. "The Ch'ien-Lung Reign" in The Cambridge History of Vol. 9: The Ch'ing Dynasty, Part 1: To 1800. Woodside, Alexander. Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	Hello. Hello and welcome. To the history of China.
0:47.8	Episode 299,
0:50.3	Remember to remember to forget you forgot me.
0:54.3	Last time, we left off on or around the year 1758.
0:59.4	The once mighty Jungarkhanet lays in ruins, crushed underneath the military might of the Qing
1:05.3	Imperial Army. Its leader, Amersana, lay dead. The Ili Valley, once a vibrant, political and religious center of Oirot power, now stands silent, empty, and haunted.
1:18.7	Qing garrisons dot the landscape, and the charred remnants of once thriving villages smolder on the horizon.
1:26.4	Yet, history does not end when the armies go home.
1:30.0	It has a way of sticking around, in the policies drafted by victors, in the memories of the defeated,
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