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Both are from the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.
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Chang Qing, of China Agricultural University, says he believes that central-government efforts are unlikely to have much impact, and that China will find it difficult to avoid a hard landing in a couple of years' time.
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Qianlong greatly expanded the Qing Dynasty, making China perhaps the wealthiest country on earth.
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Li Zehou, a Chinese intellectual, has stirred debate in recent years by arguing that China should have given the Qing reforms more of a chance.
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It is true that, under the ethnic-Manchu Qing dynasty, which fell in 1911, China ruled Mongolia cruelly.
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By the mid-1860s Qing officials sometimes felt that the Muslim Rebellion on China's western frontier posed as great a threat to the dynasty's survival as the Taiping Uprising.
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Those friars who followed Matteo Ricci into China brought with them the technology that mesmerized the Ming and Qing courts--clocks, celestial globes, telescopes.
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He is widely assumed to be the Peabody Essex's biggest donor among his gifts, according to published reports, was the purchase, importation and restoration of a complete Qing dynasty merchant's house, which sits on the museum grounds as it was in southeastern China in the 1980s.
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In 1784, our founding father, George Washington, commissioned the Empress of China, a ship that set sail for these shores so that it could pursue trade with the Qing Dynasty.
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