Qing
Qing (or Ch'ing) ( 1644 – 1912 )The last dynasty to rule China. Its emperors were Manchus . In 1644 a Ming general, Wu Sangui , invited Manchu Bannermen massed at Shanhaiguan, the undefended eastern end of the Great Wall of China, to expel the bandit chieftain Li Zicheng from Beijing. The Bannermen occupied the city and proclaimed their child-emperor ‘Son of Heaven’. Resistance continued for up to 30 years in south China. Chinese men were forced to braid their long hair into a queue or ‘pigtail’. But Qing rule differed little from that of Chinese dynasties. It emphasized study of the Confucian classics and the Confucian basis of society (see Confucianism ). The empire of China reached its widest...
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