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  2. Government of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty in ca. 1820, with provinces in yellow, military governorates and protectorates in light yellow, tributary states in orange Official map of the empire published by the Qing dynasty in 1905. Qing China reached its largest territorial extent during the 18th century, when it ruled over China proper (Eighteen Provinces), Manchuria ...

  3. Political systems of Imperial China - Wikipedia

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    The local government implemented the division of power among the three functioning departments. The Qing dynasty followed the system of the Ming dynasty, set up more military offices, put up literary prisons, thus strengthened the centralisation of authoritarianism. [9] First Emperor of Qin (18 February 259 BC – 10 September 210 BC)

  4. Social structure of China - Wikipedia

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    From the Qin dynasty to the late Qing dynasty (221 B.C.E.- C.E. 1840), the Chinese government divided Chinese people into four classes: landlord, peasant, craftsmen, and merchant. Landlords and peasants constituted the two major classes, while merchants and craftsmen were collected into the two minor.

  5. Nationalist government - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving republic in East Asia, the Republic of China was formally established on 1 January 1912 in mainland China following the Xinhai Revolution, which itself began with the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911, replacing the Qing dynasty and ending nearly three thousand years of imperial rule in China.

  6. Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The Qing dynasty was a period of literary editing and criticism, and many of the modern popular versions of Classical Chinese poems were transmitted through Qing dynasty anthologies, such as the Complete Tang Poems and the Three Hundred Tang Poems. Although fiction did not have the prestige of poetry, novels flourished.

  7. Mandarin (bureaucrat) - Wikipedia

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    A governmental office (for example, a central government department or a provincial civil governorate) headed by a mandarin is called a yamen. The mandarins were replaced with a modern civil service after the fall of the Qing dynasty. During the Qing dynasty, the governor of a Chinese province was signified by wearing a mandarin hat-pin made of ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...