User:Madalibi/New structure for Kangxi
The Oboi regency
[edit]The reign of the Kangxi emperor started with a regency by four Manchu nobles
The child emperor
[edit]Overwhelmed with grief after the death of his beloved Consort Donggo a few months earlier, the emperor fell into dejection and contracted smallpox on 2 February 1661.[1] On 4 February 1661, officials Wang Xi (王熙) and Margi (the latter a Manchu) were called to the emperor's bedside to record his last will.[2] On the same day, his third son Xuanye, who was then less than seven years old, was chosen to be his successor, probably because he had already survived smallpox.[3] The Shunzhi emperor died on 5 February 1661 in the Forbidden City at the age of twenty-two.[1]
The return of the conquest elite
[edit]Controversial policies
[edit]The fall of the regents
[edit]Stabilisation of rule
[edit]Military challenges and foreign contacts
[edit]The Three Feudatories
[edit]Taiwan
[edit]European trade missions
[edit]Inner Asia: Russians and Mongols
[edit]Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689).
Khalkha Mongols, Dzungars, Galdan.
Managing the bureaucracy
[edit]Manchus and Chinese
[edit]Cliques
[edit]Court Jesuits
[edit]Western science
[edit]Policies on Christianity
[edit]The Rites Controversy
[edit]Social and cultural policies
[edit]The problem of succession
[edit]The Heir apparent
[edit]Factional politics
[edit]Denouement
[edit]Personality
[edit]Family
[edit]Mother
[edit]Consorts
[edit]Sons
[edit]Daughters
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Dennerline 2002, p. 118.
- ^ Oxnam 1975, p. 205.
- ^ Spence 2002, p. 125. Note that Xuanye was born in May 1654, and was therefore less than seven years old at the time. Both Spence 2002 and Oxnam 1975 (p. 1) nonetheless claim that he was "seven years old." Dennerline 2002 (p. 119) and Rawski 1998 (p. 99) indicate that he was "not yet seven years old." Following East_Asian_age_reckoning, Chinese documents concerning the succession say that Xuanye was eight sui (Oxnam 1975, p. 62).