Qing Dynasty

(proper noun)

The last dynasty of China, lasting from 1644 to 1912.

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Examples of Qing Dynasty in the following topics:

  • The Qing Dynasty

  • The Qing Dynasty and the West

  • Individualist Painting under the Qing Dynasty

    • During the Qing Dynasty, painters known as Individualists rebelled against many of the traditional rules of painting through free brushwork.
    • Like many paintings from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it deals with man's place in nature.
    • Shitao is one of the most famous individualist painters of the early Qing Dynasty.
    • Like many of the paintings from the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Shitao's Reminiscences of Qin-Huai deals with man's place in nature.
    • Explain how the work of Individualists of the Qing Dynasty, such as Shitao, deviated from the traditional rules of painting.

  • Orthodox Confucian Painting under the Qing Dynasty

    • The early Qing Dynasty developed in two main strands, one of which was the Orthodox school of Confucian paintings.
    • The Qing Dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917.
    • Under the Qing Dynasty, traditional forms of art flourished and many types of innovations were made at many levels.
    • The early Qing dynasty developed in two main strands of painting: the Orthodox School and the Individualist painters.
    • Differentiate the work of the Six Orthodox Masters of the Qing Dynasty from that of their individualist contemporaries

  • Architecture and Urban Planning under the Ming Dynasty

    • Chinese urban planning and architecture under the Ming Dynasty are based on fengshui geomancy and numerology, as seen in the Forbidden City.
    • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty—the years 1420 to 1912.
    • Later, during the mid-Qing Dynasty, the Emperor's residence was moved to the western side of the complex.
    • Researchers now believe the axis was designed in the Yuan Dynasty to be aligned with Xanadu, the other capital of their empire.
    • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

  • Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    • The Qing conquest of the Ming was a period of conflict between the Qing dynasty, established by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro in Manchuria (contemporary Northeastern China), and the ruling Ming dynasty of China.
    • At the same time, the Ming dynasty was fighting for its survival against fiscal turmoil and peasant rebellions.
    • In 1662, Zheng Chenggong founded the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan, a pro-Ming dynasty state with a goal of reconquering China.
    • The fall of the Ming dynasty was caused by a combination of factors.
    • Nurhaci's conquest of Ming China's northeastern Liaoning province laid the groundwork for the conquest of the rest of China by his descendants, who founded the Qing dynasty in 1644.

  • Rise of the Ming Dynasty

    • The Ming dynasty was founded by the peasant rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang.
    • The Ming dynasty (January 23, 1368–April 25, 1644), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China founded by the peasant rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang (known posthumously as Emperor Taizu).
    • It succeeded the Yuan dynasty and preceded the short-lived Shun dynasty, which was in turn succeeded by the Qing dynasty.
    • Its institutions were generally preserved by the following Qing dynasty.
    • The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty.

  • Joseon Ceramics

    • Korea's Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) is considered the golden age of Korean pottery.
    • The influence of the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in blue and white wares using cobalt-blue glazes could be seen in Joseon pottery, but Joseon work tended to lack the pthalo blue range and the three-dimensional glassine color depth of Ming Dynasty Chinese works.
    • Simplified designs emerged early on during the Joseon Dynasty.
    • Qing coloring, brighter and almost Scythian in enamel imitation, was rejected by Korean potters in favor of simpler, less decorated wares in keeping with a new dynasty that built itself on military tradition.
    • Identify the Ming, Confucian, and Buddhist influences on pottery created during Korea's Joseon dynasty

  • Society Under the Qing

  • Anti-Qing Sentiment