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10 Cards in this Set
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Dorgon(1612-1650)
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-Manchu Military Leader -younger half-brother of Hong Taiji -Acts as a regent for boy Shunzhi Emperor -responsible for the campaign that takes the former Ming capital Beijing Sig.: -brings in new regime -Qing solidifies power in China -end of Native rule and beginning of foreign rule. |
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Aisin Goro
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- name of the Manchu Imperial Clan Sig.: -collective term for all the emperors -marks the rule of the Qing -they ruled China... for a LOOONG time -manchu culture |
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Hong Chengchou (1593-1665)
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-turncoat Ming official -captured in the battle at Jinzhou in 1641 Sig.: -After surrending to the Manchu side, he becomes instrumental in helping to model the Qing bureaucracy in imitation of Ming institutional structures |
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Wu Sangui
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- general under the Ming -first sides with Li Zicheng’s rebels -then allies with the Manchu troops -launches a rebellion against the Qing, and sets himself up at the ruler of a new dynasty centered in SW China -rebellion suppressed by 1681 Sig.: - lets Qing into the city of Beijing=> the establishment of the Qing Dynasty - example of the turmoil during the times - changes sides 3 times - unrest amongst the people trying to find correct leadership, but failing -completely unstable times |
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Nurhaci (1559-1626)
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-begins to consolidate territory and set up the manchus as a dynastic power -takes on the dynastic title of the Later Jin in 1616 Sig.: -first Qing emperor -altaic style leadership -well educated -Mixing of mongols and Manchus - took care of the northern threat -Created the banner system - Begins the way of not necessarily choosing the first son as heir - Ruled in a way that brought in different cultures - reverence for heaven and also ancestral precepts |
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Hong Taiji (1627-1635)
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-son of Nurhaci, succeeded him in 1626 -in 1636 renamed his state Qing -When he died in 1643 at age forty-six, his brother Dorgon was made regent for his five year old son, Fulin, the Shunzhi Emperor Sig.: -extends Manchu rule throughout the Liaodong Peninsual -makes a conerted effort to win Chinese advisors to his empire-building project. -shows struggle of Manchu trying to keep their own identity while at the same time trying to appeal to their Chinese subjects. |
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The Three Feudatories (1673 -1681)
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-Rebellion against the Qing led by three Chinese generals who had originally sided with the Qing against Li Zicheng’s rebel army -Area in rebellion covers the region from Sichuan to Southeast coast Sig.: - Shows the on going trend of Chinese looking to outside help for military stuff |
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Li Zicheng
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-a former sheperd and postal relay worker -became the paramountrebel leader in the north. -1644 moved through Hebei into Beijing, where the last Ming emperor, in despair, took his own life. -announced that he had founded an new dynasty, appointed officials and minted coins Sig.: -shows the disorder of late Ming society and how it eventually collapsed. -claimed to have found new dynasty but failed to stop violence and looting in region> shows remnant chaos of the Ming |
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Manchus
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-descended from the Jurchens -communities at Chinese northern border during the Ming Dynasty -hunters, fishermen, and farmers -tribal social structure and were excellent horsemen and archers -hierarchal: slaves and elites Sig.: -Political style: not just military might, but cultural elements too -Territorial legacy: unified beyond Chinese Great Wall, reconcile with Mongols, still living with tension of extensions -Ethnic plurality: hybrid construction, multi-ethnic |
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Zheng Chenggong
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- pirate/warlord operating along the Fujian coast -allies with the loyalist SouthernMing court after the fall of the Ming -When Ming resistance is wiped out, he sails on Taiwan and chases away the Dutch -his son continues regime on Taiwan until 1684; island then conquered by Qing navy Sig.: -symbol of counterforce to political China -establishes his own kingdom -hates the gentry and tries to kill them all -conducts class warfare -unrest of the lower-class from the corruption and failing of tax system from the Ming >>poor get super poor |
