Not Made in China, Part Deux: Voltaire and the Qianlong Emperor

Voltaire was such a huge fan of China that he once wrote a poem in celebration of the Qianlong Emperor, due to little else than intel that the emperor was a poet. That was enough, apparently! Who knows if Qianlong read it, but we did. Join us for part two in our series.

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