HIS280Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Southern Ming, Yongzheng Emperor, Jimi System
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We still don"t have a clear idea of what is chinese". Qing court saw itself as a universal empire w/ universal rulertrying to bring a bunch of diff. ethnicities and social classes. We have more evidence of high qing so we can say more about the emperors" personalities: long 18th century : pervasive problems: Central emperor was detached from economic expansion. Root issue = confucian belief of small government" (be benevolent when taxing) // threatened by princes: long 18th century (started late 1600s) rulers, kangxi (r. 1662-1722) A worrier (charismatic but also self-conscious about how he came off) Literate in manchu & chinese (all the rest bilingual, too) Corresponds via secret palace memorials (sealed memos, only for ruler) Makes benevolent gesture of freezing" a labour tax. Started initial campaigns against east turkistan, the southern ming, etc. 1684: quarantines placed on legal migration to taiwannonetheless, is more settled by coastal fujian se coastal province.
