HIS280Y1 Lecture : February 9th -- The High Qing Period, 1683 - 1796.docx
Document Summary
Qing imperialism and the destruction of the dzungar mongols. Territorial expansion in the 18th century: yunnan, taiwan, tibet. Women"s agency and the family system in late imperial china. It is during this time that china assumes the shape it looks like today, and the population skyrockets. When the qing took over from the ming, they basically adopted the systems of taxation that had been in place in the ming. By 1712, things are so stable and the dynasty so prosperous that the kangxi declares that never again will there ever be an increase in taxation. This will hobble the dynasty in its later years when it really could have used more taxes. In 1685, louis xiv sends five jesuits to china, and one of them becomes a kind of ambassador between louis xiv and the chinese emperor. Jesuits engage in a great project of mapping the qing empire and they eventually produce the.
