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