The Qing Dynasty began with the ascendancy of the Jurchen people, a semi-nomadic group from the northeast of present-day China. A Jurchen leader, Nurhachi, began a rebellion against the ruling …

Perdue analyzes the language and semiotics of Qing edicts and of multilingual stone tablets erected by the Qing in Beijing and key sites in Xinjiang to commemorate historical victories in Inner Asia.

The Qing expanded China by taking control of Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet, a campaign that took 88 years from 1680-1760. The reason for this expansion was not economic, it was largely for security …

During Qing times the Chinese state system, though it was a monarchy, was not a monolith. The bureaucracy always had to worry about and accommodate local circumstances.

The Qing chose leaders from many different ethnic backgrounds. While the Qing themselves were Manchu, they made sure to include the Han and even the Mongols in the government.

Between the demise of the Qing Empire in 1912 and the creation of the People’s Republic in 1949, China continued to struggle with the late Qing conundrums of economic re-construction, …

Over the next 150 years, Qing armies conquered the rest of Ming China and expanded China’s control over Taiwan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Central Asia. Meanwhile, Qing emperors restored order …