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*''Dates: [[1644]]-[[1911]]''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 清 ''(Qīng / Shin)''
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of Imperial China. Ruled by [[Manchu]] emperors, it began with the fall of the [[Ming Dynasty]] in [[1644]], and ended with the [[Xinhai Revolution]] in [[1911]]. Though not a [[Han Chinese]] dynasty like the Ming which preceded it, due to its time, interactions with the West, and the overwhelming proportion of Qing period buildings, documents, and objects which have survived compared to those from earlier periods, it is the Qing which, perhaps, has most influenced or constituted the image of Imperial China, and of traditional Chinese culture; to name just a few examples of this phenomenon, Imperial [[dragon robes]], men wearing their hair in [[queues]], and men and women both wearing robes or dresses with off-center clasps (e.g. the ''cheongsam'' or ''qipao'', commonly known in the West simply as a "Chinese dress") all derive from Manchu culture, and not from Ming or earlier "native" Chinese traditions.
Though nearly three hundred years in length, and seeing numerous considerable economic, political, social, and cultural developments over the course of those centuries, the Qing Dynasty is perhaps most strongly associated with the circumstances surrounding its decline and fall in the 19th to early 20th centuries, from the [[Opium War]] of the 1840s and the first of the [[Unequal Treaties]] which resulted, to the [[Taiping Rebellion]] of [[1850]]-[[1864]], failed attempts at reform and modernization, the First [[Sino-Japanese War]] in [[1895]]-[[1896]], the [[Boxer Rebellion]] of [[1899]]-[[1901]], and the final fall of the dynasty in 1911.
==Manchu Takeover==
*origins before fall of Ming
*conquest
*cultural changes - queue, etc.
*governmental structures - exams, banners, ethnic division
*survival of the Ming / destruction of Ming loyalists
==Demographic & Economic Expansion==
==Arts & Culture==
*Qianlong
==Foreign Relations, Decline, and Fall==
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==References==
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 清 ''(Qīng / Shin)''
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of Imperial China. Ruled by [[Manchu]] emperors, it began with the fall of the [[Ming Dynasty]] in [[1644]], and ended with the [[Xinhai Revolution]] in [[1911]]. Though not a [[Han Chinese]] dynasty like the Ming which preceded it, due to its time, interactions with the West, and the overwhelming proportion of Qing period buildings, documents, and objects which have survived compared to those from earlier periods, it is the Qing which, perhaps, has most influenced or constituted the image of Imperial China, and of traditional Chinese culture; to name just a few examples of this phenomenon, Imperial [[dragon robes]], men wearing their hair in [[queues]], and men and women both wearing robes or dresses with off-center clasps (e.g. the ''cheongsam'' or ''qipao'', commonly known in the West simply as a "Chinese dress") all derive from Manchu culture, and not from Ming or earlier "native" Chinese traditions.
Though nearly three hundred years in length, and seeing numerous considerable economic, political, social, and cultural developments over the course of those centuries, the Qing Dynasty is perhaps most strongly associated with the circumstances surrounding its decline and fall in the 19th to early 20th centuries, from the [[Opium War]] of the 1840s and the first of the [[Unequal Treaties]] which resulted, to the [[Taiping Rebellion]] of [[1850]]-[[1864]], failed attempts at reform and modernization, the First [[Sino-Japanese War]] in [[1895]]-[[1896]], the [[Boxer Rebellion]] of [[1899]]-[[1901]], and the final fall of the dynasty in 1911.
==Manchu Takeover==
*origins before fall of Ming
*conquest
*cultural changes - queue, etc.
*governmental structures - exams, banners, ethnic division
*survival of the Ming / destruction of Ming loyalists
==Demographic & Economic Expansion==
==Arts & Culture==
*Qianlong
==Foreign Relations, Decline, and Fall==
{{stub}}
==References==
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]