Week 11: The “High Qing”

I. Qing Rulerships

  1. The Kangxi emperor (r. 1661–1722)—consolidation … war of the Three Feudatories (1673–1681) … Taiwan (1683) … foundation of government (bannermen … grand secretaries … six ministries … governors) … sacred edicts (1670) … rites controversy (1692)
  2. The Yongzheng emperor (r. 1722–1735)—centralization … Grand Council … the Secret Memorial system … fiscal reforms … Lü Liuliang 呂留良 (1629–1683)
  3. The Qianlong emperor (r.1735–1796)—42,000 poems … “Manchu-ness” … sorcery scare (1768) … Si ku quan shu 四庫全書 (1771–80s; The complete library of the four treasuries; 3,461 titles) … patrons of literati culture
  4. Notable characteristics—longevity … dual identities

II. Expansion and Consolidation

  1. Taiwan (1683)—Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功 (Koxinga)
  2. Mongolia (1690s)—Eastern Mongols (1630s) … Western (Dzungar) Mongols (1696)
  3. Tibet (1720s)—protectorate
  4. Xinjiang (Chinese Central Asia) (1750s)—Uighurs
  5. Russia—treaties (1689; 1728)
  6. “Multi-ethnic” empire—Illustrations of Tributaries

III. Social and Economic Trends

  1. Population expansion
  2. Migration
  3. Social mobility

IV. Cultural Reorientation

  1. “Evidential learning” (kao zheng)—Huang Zongxi 黃宗羲 (1610–95) … Gu Yanwu 顧炎武 (1613–82) … reactions against Wang Yangming (1472–1529)
  2. Conservative turn—faithful widows . . . women’s writings
  3. Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 (Hong lou meng) (1791)—Cao Xueqin (1715–64)

V. Legacies of the Eighteenth Century

  1. Demographic and territorial expansion
  2. Involutionary trap?

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