The Manchu Dynasty
Essay: The Manchu Dynasty
The weakness of its government, peasant rebellions, and the poor condition of its armies toward the middle of the seventeenth century made China easy prey for the Manchu. From the north, the Manchus invaded and set up the last Imperial dynasty, the Qing. During the reign of Emperor Kang Xi (1661-1722), Chinese influence was extended to Mongolia, Central Asia, Tibet, Korea, Annam, Burma, and Thailand. By the 19th century the dynasty …
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…technically a republic.
In 1911 revolutionary groups, inspired by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a Western-educated physician, succeeded in overthrowing the Qing, bringing to an end more than 2,000 years of intermittent Imperial rule by eight major dynasties.
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