Alternative Titles:
Ch’ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty, Manzu dynasty
Qing dynasty, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ing, also called Manchu dynasty, Pinyin Manzu, last of the imperial dynasties of China, spanning the years 1644 to 1911/12. Under the Qing the territory of the empire grew to treble its size under the preceding Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the population grew from some 150 million to 450 million, many of the non-Chinese minorities within the empire were Sinicized, and an integrated national economy was established.
The Qing dynasty was first established in 1636 by the Manchus to designate their regime in Manchuria (now the Northeast region of China). In 1644 the Chinese capital at Beijing …(100 of 1021 words)
