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| This is the territory that Qing Dynasty possesed. It is a map of China of the Qing Dynasty in 1890. |
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| The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China |
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| During which time periods did the Qing rule? |
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| The Qing dynasty ruled from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. |
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| Who founded the Qing dynasty? |
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| The dynasty was founded by the Jurchen Aisin Gioro clan in contemporary Northeastern China. The Aisin Gioro leader, Nurhachi, who was originally a vassal of the Ming emperors, began unifying the Jurchen clans in the late sixteenth century. |
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| When and who united the Manchu people? |
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| By 1635, Nurhachi's son Hong Taiji could claim they constituted a single and united Manchu people and began forcing the Ming out of Liaoning in southern Manchuria. |
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| What government system was used by the two emperors and who were the emperors? From when to when did they rule? |
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Government- Absolute monarchy
Emperors
1644–1661- Shunzhi Emperor
1908–1912- Xuantong Emperor |
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| Who was the leader of the peasant revolt in 1644? |
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| The peasant revolt led by Li Zicheng, a former minor Ming official who became the leader of the peasant revolt, who then proclaimed the Shun dynasty. |
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| What happened after the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide after the Beijing fell? |
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| The last Ming ruler, the Chongzhen Emperor, committed suicide when the city fell. When Li Zicheng moved against Ming general Wu Sangui, the latter made an alliance with the Manchus and opened the Shanhai Pass to the Manchurian army. Under Prince Dorgon, they seized control of Beijing and overthrew Li Zicheng's short-lived Shun Dynasty. |
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| What are some examples of the Qing dynasty becoming highly integrated with Chinese culture? |
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| The imperial examinations continued and Han civil servants administered the empire alongside Manchu ones. |
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| Under what emperor did the Qing reach it's height in the eighteenth century, expanding beyond China's prior and later boundaries? |
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| Under the Qianlong Emperor |
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| What caused the weakening of the Qing dynasty in the nineteenth century? |
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| Imperial corruption exemplified by the minister Heshen and a series of rebellions, natural disasters, and defeats in wars against European powers. |
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| What were the self- strengthening movement and "unequal treaties"? |
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| "Unequal Treaties" provided for extraterritoriality and removed large areas of treaty ports from Chinese sovereignty. The government attempts to modernize during the Self-Strengthening Movement in the late 19th century led to osing the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895. |
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| Political map of Asia in 1890, showing late-Qing China (center, in light brown). |
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| Kangxi's (1662- 1722) reign is also celebrated as the beginning of an era called "Kang-Qian Golden Age," also known as "High Qing," during which the Qing Dynasty reached the zenith of its social, economic and military power. |
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| These are the main events that happened in the Qing Dynasty and their imperial eras. |
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| The Empress Dowager Cixi, concubine to the Xiafeng Emperor (r. 1850–1861) came to power in 1861, when, with the help of Prince Gong, removed eight regents (led by Sushun)\whom the Xianfeng Emperor had appointed on his deathbed to rule for the child emperor Tongzhi, Cixi's son. |
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| Taiping Rebellion, (1850–64), radical political and religious upheaval that was probably the most important event in China in the 19th century. It ravaged 17 provinces, took an estimated 20,000,000 lives, and irrevocably altered the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12). |
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| Sun Yatsen ended the Qing Dynasty |
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The first Opium War, 1839–42 between China and Western countries.
The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain.
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| Unequal Treaty, in Chinese history, any of a series of treaties in which China was forced to concede many of its territorial and sovereignty rights. |
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