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Historical person
1644–1697
Galdan Boshugtu Khan was a ruler of the Dzungar Khanate and a major Inner Asian rival of the Qing Empire. He expanded Dzungar power across Central Asia before fighting the Kangxi Emperor’s forces. Jin Yong includes him among the foreign and frontier powers negotiated by Trinket.
Jin Yong’s fiction uses this historical figure within a narrative that blends documented events, popular legend and wuxia invention.
Series
Set during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor, The Deer and the Cauldron follows Wei Xiaobao—called Trinket in John Minford’s English translation—from a Yangzhou brothel into the Forbidden City. Illiterate, irreverent and almost entirely without conventional martial virtue, he survives through mimicry, bribery, luck and an instinct…
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