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1678 Dzungar Prince Galdan invades Eastern Turkestan, taking Kashgar and
Yarkand, then (1679) Kami and Turfan.

1681 Three Feudatories are finally put down; death of Zheng Jing.

1682 Death of Fifth Dalai Lama. The Grand Lama Sangge seizes power, and supports
GaldanТs territorial expansion.

1683 Surrender of the Pescadores Islands; Manchus finally conquer Taiwan.

1686 Kang Xi calls unsuccessful conference of Mongols and Tibetans.

1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk signed between Manchus and Russians, defining their
border.

1690 War finally breaks out between Galdan and the Manchus.

1696 Galdan is defeated by Kang XiТs army at the battle of Jao Modo.

For an excellent, readable account of the historical background to , see the
first three chapters of Jonathan SpenceТs book, The Search for Modern China (New
YorkТ Norton, 1990). A colourful earlier account of this period is to be found
in Backhouse and Bland, Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (LondonТ
Heinemann, 1914), chapters 1Т10.

QLOSSARY OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

Where historical dates are given, they are based on Hummel, Eminent Chinese of
the ChТing Period (Washington, i 94 4)

Ah (as in Ah Ki) An affectionate diminutive. AH KI see Blue Girl AH KOR see
Green Girl
AJIGE Commander of the Vanguard Regiment, until replaced by Colonel Tai. These
crack troops were always feuding with DolongТs Valiants (shades of the KingТs
Musketeers and the CardinalТs Guards in DumasТ The Three Musketeers, a work
Louis Cha greatly admires).
ALEXIUS MIKHAILOVICH Second Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, reigned 1645Т1676. See
Sophia, Princess.
AMOY Important port; headquarters of Coxinga in southern Fujian Province.
AN FU GARDENS Literally, Park of Peaceful Prosperity. This was one of the
SatrapТs extravagant pleasure gardens, put at the disposal of Princess Ning
during her stay in Kunming. Situated in the western suburbs of the city, it is
said (historically) to have housed his large library.
AO BIAO The Blue Tiger. One of the Mu Family retainers, the much tattooed
disciple of Shaker Wu.
BASHТEM, General Li Zicheng (1605Т1645), rebel leader who drove the last of the
Ming Emperors from Peking in 1644, only to be ejected in his turn by Satrap Wu
and the Manchus. His subsequent fate is unknown. One legend says that he did not
die in 1645, but escaped to a monastery.