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  2. 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 .

  3. Puyi - Wikipedia

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    Puyi [c] (7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the final emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912. When the Guangxu Emperor died without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi picked his nephew Puyi, aged two, to succeed him as the Xuantong Emperor.

  4. History of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    This brought an end to the Qing dynasty, and over 2,000 years of imperial rule in China. Shikai briefly ruled as a dictator, but proved incapable of ruling all China, and the country splintered apart, not to be fully reunited until 1928 under Chiang Kai-shek.

  5. List of emperors of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was a Manchu-led imperial Chinese dynasty and the last imperial dynasty of China. It was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Shenyang in what is now Northeast China, but only captured Beijing and succeeded the Ming dynasty in China proper in 1644.

  6. Imperial Edict of the Abdication of the Qing Emperor - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty was proclaimed by the Manchus in 1636. In Chinese historiography, the Qing dynasty bore the Mandate of Heaven after it succeeded the Ming dynasty in 1644. In the late 19th century, wars with foreign powers led to the loss of territories and tributary states, such as Hong Kong in the First Opium War and Korea in the First Sino-Japanese War, which significantly reduced the ...

  7. History of Qing (People's Republic) - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, People's Daily ran an op-ed by Zhou Qun, the executive deputy editor of the academic journal "Historical Research" (历史研究; Lìshǐ yánjiū), entitled "Firmly grasp the right to speak in Qing history research", [3] which emphasized the great importance of the history of the Qing dynasty for contemporary China, but intoned that ...

  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. 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 ...