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  2. Transition from Ming to Qing - Wikipedia

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    The transition from Ming to Qing (or simply the Ming-Qing transition [4]) or the Manchu conquest of China from 1618 to 1683 saw the transition between two major dynasties in Chinese history. It was a decades-long conflict between the emerging Qing dynasty, the incumbent Ming dynasty, and several smaller factions (like the Shun dynasty and Xi ...

  3. Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty (/ tʃ ɪ ŋ / CHING), officially the Great Qing, [b] was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history , the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China .

  4. Dynasties of China - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Ming founder, the Hongguang Emperor, was a grandson of the 14th emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Wanli Emperor; Later Jin and Qing dynasty. The Later Jin and the Qing dynasty were ruled by the House of Aisin Gioro; The Emperor Taizong of Qing was both the last Later Jin khan and the first emperor of the Qing dynasty

  5. History of the Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...

  6. Timeline of the Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Song-Jin: Qing dynasty takes Jinzhou [354] Floods strike Zhejiang [351] Composite metal cannons are produced in the Ming dynasty. [323] [355] [356] Li Zicheng's rebels manage to create a two zhang breach in Ming fortifications using cannons. [357] 1643: January: Li Zicheng takes Xiangyang [353] November: Li Zicheng takes Xi'an [354]

  7. Chinese Empire - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Empire (or Empire of China) is a term referring to the realm ruled by the Emperor of China [1] during the era known as Imperial China.It was coined by western scholars and used to describe the Ming and Qing dynasties (or imperial Chinese dynasties in general).

  8. Legacy of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty in 1911. The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was the largest political entity ever to center itself on China as known today. Succeeding the Ming dynasty, the Qing dynasty more than doubled the geographical extent of the Ming dynasty, which it displayed in 1644, and also tripled the Ming population, reaching a size of about half a billion people in its last years.

  9. Administration of territory in dynastic China - Wikipedia

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    (1820) Governorships of the Qing dynasty Official map of the Qing Empire published in 1905. The Qing dynasty kept the Ming province system and expanded it to 18 provinces by 1850. However unlike the Ming tripartite provincial administration, Qing provinces were governed by a single Governor ( xunfu ) who held substantial power.