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BA LANGXING Officer in Satrap WuТs army.
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BATAI, Lord Grand Chancellor of the Hall of Middle Harmony, an elderly Manchu
statesman, simultaneously holding the post of Minister of the Board of Rites.

BLUE DRAGON MARSHAL Xu Xueting; elder of Mystic Dragon Sect.

BLUE GIRL Wang Ah Ki, twentyТyearТold disciple of the White Nun, in love with
Prince Galdan.

BODONICH, Prince Leader of delegation of ministers and dignitaries sent to
negotiate with Princess Sophia, after the mutiny.

BRONZE HAT LANE Alley in central Peking, location of TrinketТs palace.

CHANG, Princess see White Nun CHEN YUANYUAN see Peerless Consort

CHIRONOV One of the musketeers sent to guard Princess Sophia in the hunting
lodge outside Moscow; later promoted to Captain and sent east to Fort Albazin,
with Vobolsky.

CHONG ZHEN, Emperor (1611Т1644) Zhu Youjian, last Emperor of the Ming dynasty,
who succeeded to the throne in 1627, aged sixteen, inheriting an empire too poor
to stand the expense of maintaining the armies needed at the front. Wholesale
desertion and banditry plagued his reign, and indecision and lack of confidence
prevented the formation of a strong government. In 1629, his loyal general Yuan
Chonghuan (one of the last hopes for the survival of the Ming in the face of the
growing Manchu threat) was unjustly put to death. This was followed by the
everТincreasing encroachment of the Manchus from the northТeast, while from 1630
onwards China was ravaged by desperate hordes of bandits. Chong Zhen hanged
himself on Coal Hill when the rebel leader Li Zicheng entered Peking.

CHRYSANTHEMUM SCENT Feng XifanТs fifth

concubine.

QLOSSARY OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

CLAN LODGE Triad Lodge of Guangxi Province.

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COXINGA (1624Т1662) This was the Western name (sometimes written Koxinga, based
on the Fukienese pronunciation of a tide GuoТxingТye given him by the Ming
Court) for the naval warrior Zheng Chenggong, Marshal Zheng, first Prince of
Yanping, leader until his death of the antiТManchu resistance, cryptically
referred to as Dragon Brother by the Triads. His father was a Fukienese pirate