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Historical person
1654–1722
The Kangxi Emperor was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty and ruled China from 1661 to 1722.
His long reign consolidated Manchu rule after the conquest, suppressed major rebellions, expanded Qing authority, sponsored scholarship and managed relations between the imperial court and Jesuit specialists.
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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Non Fiction
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