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unusual facts about Qing



28242 Mingantu

The asteroid was named after Minggatu, a Qing era mathematician and astronomer of Mongol ethnicity, who is credited with originally discovering Catalan numbers.

Amban

After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, the Manchu amban was expelled by Mongol forces, fleeing to China proper via Russia.

Baoding Military Academy

The academy trained officers for the New Army, which was a significant factor in Yuan Shikai's rise to power at the end of the Qing dynasty and the pivotal role he played in the Xinhai Revolution.

Battle of Amoy

The Qing forces had prepared defenses along the shore of Amoy and built batteries on Gulangyu Island.

Betty Wei

She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch.

Blood on Wolf Mountain

Blood on Wolf Mountain starred actresses Li Lili, and Lan Ping (who later in life would adopt the name Jiang Qing and gain notoriety as the wife of Mao Zedong and a member of the Gang of Four).

Cao Peng

Cao Peng was born into one of the most influential families in the once thriving trading centre of Jiangyin, related both to Cao Yuyuan, the famous court censor of the late Qing, and more distantly to the great Cao family (of which the most famous scion was Cao Xueqin) that had risen in the world from the 18th century.

China Stamp Society

China Stamp Society chapters in the United States are located at: San Francisco Bay, California (Chiu Chin Shan Chapter); Los Angeles, California (Chia Nan Chapter); Chicago, Illinois (Ping Yuan Zhi Zhu Chapter); Dallas - Ft. Worth Area (North Texas Chapter); and, Seattle, Washington (Chang Qing Long Chapter).

Chongqing Qinghua Middle School

Chongqing Qinghua Middle School (重庆 清华 中学 chóng-qìng qīng-huá zhōng-xué) is located on the south ramp way of Lijiatuo Bridge in Lijiatuo Town, Banan District, Chongqing City, People's Republic of China, beside the Huaxi River.

Dai Qing

Dai Qing was then adopted by her father's friend, Ye Jianying (葉劍英), who was a major Chinese political figure and one of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army.

Dai Xiangyu

Dai paired the second time with Jeanette Aw in " Together.Dai acted Yang Nian Qing's(Jeanette Aw) brother in Breakout. This is the third time Dai acted with Jeanette Aw. After the 2010 year-end blockbuster Breakout, Dai took a break and did not appear in any locally produced series. He briefly returned to China to film a co-production drama Precious. He played Ling Zhi Chu in "Precious".

Democracy in China

When the 1911 Revolution began, it was the provincial assemblies that provided legitimacy to the rebels by declaring their independence from the Qing Empire.

Donglin

Donglin movement, ideological and philosophical movement of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties of China

Empress Feng Qing

Feng Qing was a daughter of Feng Xi (馮熙) the Prince of Changli, who was a brother of the powerful Grand Empress Dowager Feng, the wife of Emperor Wencheng and regent over his son Emperor Xianwen and grandson Emperor Xiaowen.

Former British Consulate at Takao

In 1860 the Treaty of Peking forced the Qing government of Taiwan (then Formosa) to open up the ports of Takao (now known as Kaohsiung), An-Ping (Anping, Tainan), Tamsui (Tamsui, New Taipei) and Keelung to foreign trade.

Gongmao

Qing Guanmao, Qing official headwear, the headwear of officials during the Qing Dynasty in China

History of Tuva

Each khoshun was governed by an hereditary prince nominally appointed by the Qing military governor at Uliastai.

HLKX UAV

Super Anotogaster sieboldii (Chao-Ji Da-Qing-Ting or Chaojidaqingting, 超级大蜻蜓) is a methanol fuel powered Chinese miniature UAV in conventional layout with high wing configuration and T-tail.

Invincible Shan Bao Mei

During their guest appearance, Chen Qiao En and Ethan Juan reprise their roles from Fated to Love You as Chen Xin Yi and Ji Cun Xi respectively, as do Na Wei Xun, who plays Anson, and Jessica Song, as Chen Xin Yi's eldest sister Chen Qing Xia.

Jiangshan Fengyu Qing

Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou are both capable military leaders appointed by Chongzhen to counter the Manchu invaders, but they meet with different fates — Yuan is executed by slow slicing for treason after Chongzhen believes false accusations that Yuan is plotting against him; Hong is forced to surrender to the Manchus after his defeat at the Battle of Songjin, and he aids the Qing forces on their campaign against the Southern Ming Dynasty later.

Kaoklai Kaennorsing

He beat Qing Jun Zhang in quarterfinals and Hiraku Hori in semis, before facing a 7'2" and 346 lb (2.18 m, 157 kg) former Korean Ssireum wrestling champion, Hong-Man Choi in finals. Choi more than doubled Kaoklai's weight and towering a 1'3" (0.38 m) above the defending champion.

Li Qing

Li Mao (715–775), formerly known as Li Qing, Imperial Prince of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

Mianning

Daoguang Emperor (1782 – 1850), named Mianning, emperor of the Qing Dynasty

Military of the Qing dynasty

During what was called the Warlord Era (1916–1928) the late-Qing armies became rivals and fought among themselves and with new militarists.

National Palace Museum

Among the most famous paintings in the collection is the Qing Palace version of Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky

Aigun (Saghalian Oula), was the main Qing town on the Amur.

Phan Thanh Giản

His grandfather, Phan Thanh Tap was a native of Haicheng (near modern day Longhai, Fujian) in Zhangzhou prefectrure of Fujian province at the beginning of the 17th century due political sentiments against the ruling Qing government.

Puning Temple

The later Qianlong Emperor dispatched an army to Yili in order to suppress their resistance against the Qing Dynasty.

Qing Yi Wu Jia

Qing Yi Wu Jia (情義無價) (1988) is a TV series starring Jaime Chik Mei Chun (戚美珍), Jacky Chang (張晨光), Chiu Yu Ting (邱于庭) and Kou Shih-hsiun (寇世勳) produced by China Television.

Shanghai North Railway Station

The station was established as the Shanghai Railway Station in 1909 by the Qing government.

Sichuanese Mandarin

This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.

The vocabulary of Sichuanese has three main origins: Bashu (or Ancient Sichuanese), Middle Chinese and the languages of the immigrants, including Proto-Mandarin from Hubei, Xiang, Gan and Hakka, which were brought to Sichuan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Side carving

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the seal engraving art was commonly seen.

Southern Shaolin Monastery

It is said that after the government destroyed the first temple Chee Seen, one of the Five Elders went on to build a second southern Shaolin Temple at Jiulian Shan (Nine Lotus Mountain) which was also later destroyed by the Qing government with the help of Pak Mei and Fung Dou Dak, two of Five Elders who defected from the Shaolin.

Su Shun

Sushun (肅順; 1816–1861), style name Yuting (雨亭), Qing Dynasty noble and regent

Sultan Said Khan

The Khojas were divided into two hostile groups that hated and killed each other - the ak taghliks (White Mountaineers) and the kara taghliks (Black Mountaineers), who deposed one of the last moghul khans, Ismail Khan, in 1678, with the help of invited Kalmyks (Dzungars), and put the whole country under the foot of future invaders, including Dzungars and Qings (Manchus), for gaining personal powers.

Suzhou Museum

The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.

Taipei Bridge

The Governor-General of Taiwan's office of the Japanese, which had taken control of Taiwan from the Qing, decided to reroute the railway to the south through Pankio (Banqiao).

Wenzong

Xianfeng Emperor (1831-1861), born Yizhu, of the Qing Dynasty, who served between 1850 and 1861

Wolong Gang

Nowadays, Wolong Gang has historic buildings built during the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

Wong Fei Hung Series

He is drawn into the conflict between the Qing government and the revolutionaries of the Tongmenghui.

Xianfeng

Xianfeng Emperor (1831 – 1861), Emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty

Yang Wei

Chinese cruiser Yangwei, a late Qing-dynasty warship with the Beiyang Fleet

Yin Li

Yunli, birth name Yinli (胤禮), prince of the Qing Dynasty and a son of the Kangxi Emperor

Yinzhi

Yinzhi, Prince Cheng (胤祉; 1674 - 1732), a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and third son of the Kangxi Emperor

Yixuan

Yixuan, Prince Chun (1840-1891), a Manchu prince and statesman of the late Qing Dynasty

Zaitao

In May 1910 he was sent to Britain as an ambassador and represented the Qing Dynasty at the funeral of King Edward VII.

Zaizhen

In 1917 President Li Yuanhong granted permission for Zaizhen to inherit the title of "Prince Qing of the First Rank" (慶親王) after the death of Zaizhen's father Yikuang.


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