#257 - Qing 3: Lose Your Hair, Or Lose Your Head

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Manchu occupation of the lands south of the Yangtze River proceed smoothly... right up until Prince Dorgon is convinced by some of his advisors that everyone needs a haircut. Within Southern Ming, multiple princes vie for power - such as it it - at pretty much the worst possible time to be having a throne-fight. Time Period Covered: 1645-1646 CE Major Historical Actors: Qing: Prince Dorgon, Regent of Great Qing [1612-1650] Dodo, Prince of Yu [1614-1649] Bolo, Prince Duanzhong [1613-1652] Hong Chengchou [1593-1665] Southern Ming: Zhu Yujian, Prince of Tang/Longwu Emperor [1602-1646] Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, Regent of Great Ming [1618-1662] General Zheng Hongkui [d. 1654] Zheng Zhilong (Nicholas Iquan Gaspard), Marquis of Tong'an [1604-1661] Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) [1624-1662] Major Works Cited: Dennerline, Jerry. "The Shun-chih Reiegn" in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9, Part One: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 Struve, Lynn A. "The Southern Ming, 1644-1662" in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7 The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, part I. Wakeman, Frederic. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
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1:01.0	As of now, in all places occupied by the Grand Army,
1:04.0	we will shave the military and not shave the civilians.
1:07.0	We will shave soldiers and not shave the people.
1:10.0	You all must not fail to observe regulations,
1:13.0	and if you are supposed to be shaved, go ahead and shave yourselves.
1:17.0	Formerly, there were shameless civil officials
1:19.0	who shaved themselves first in order to seek an interview.
1:22.0	We've already reviled them, special proclamation.
1:27.0	From Do-do, Prince of You, June 14th, 1645.
1:32.0	Those who obey are people of our country.
1:34.0	Those who disobey are bandits under rebel command
1:37.0	and must be severely punished.
1:40.0	From the Dong Hua Lu.
1:43.0	To cut off my head is a small matter.
1:45.0	To shave my head is a great matter.
1:49.0	The scholar Yang Ting-shu, 1647, refusing the tonsure order.
1:54.0	He was subsequently beheaded.
1:57.0	After those of us in the city cut our hair,
1:59.0	it was only the country folk who continued as before.
2:02.0	Those who had shaved their hair did not go into the countryside.
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