Nemesis Mine: The Kangxi Emperor & Galdan Khan

Chris Stewart, The History of China Podcast

Explores the decades-long duel between the Qing dynasty’s most formidable emperor, Kangxi Emperor, & his greatest Inner Asian rival, the Dzungar warlord Galdan Boshugtu Khan. A steppe-and-empire chess match at the edges of the known world, we’ll trace how personal ambition, frontier geopolitics, & mobile warfare reshaped the balance of power across Central Eurasia.