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Article: Musings.(Brief Article)
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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"Keep an open mind, and you'll learn thing; you will miss other people's good qualities if you just concentrate on your own abilities."
--the Kangxi emperor
THE QING (PRONOUNCED CHING) DYNASTY WAS CHINA'S LAST IMPERIAL DYNASTY.
It was also one of China's longest ruling dynasties--from 1644 to 1911. And its rulers were descended not from Chinese, but from Manchus, whose ancestors in centuries passed moved southward from the northern reaches of ...