[The China Project] The ‘near miracle’ that was China’s first modern treaty with a European state

The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Manchu China
and Romanov Russia. It was negotiated in a remote region between
two sides that distrusted each other and with deeply different
conceptions of both diplomacy and politics — and somehow
withstood the test of time.


Click here to read the article by James Carter.


Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.


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