#266 - Qing 11: Shunzhi's Personal Rule

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

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With the untimely and mysterious death of Prince-Regent Dorgon, the thirteen-year-old Shunzhi Emperor takes personal command of the still unsteady Qing Empire. He's got a lot to do - and it will turn out, not terribly long to do it! From purging prince, to beheading grand secretaries, to winning conquests... to perhaps that hardest of them all: standing up to his own mother, it's Shunzhi in the driver's seat! Time Period Covered: 1651-1661 CE Major Historical Figures: House of Aisin Gioro: The Shunzhi Emperor (Fulin) [r. 1651-1661] Prince-Regent Dorgon [1612-1650] Jirgalang, Prince Zheng of the First Rank [1599-1655] Qing Imperial Court: Grand Secretariat Chen Mingxia [1601-1654] General Tantai of the Plain Yellow Banner [1594-1651] Grand Academician Feng Chuan [1596-1572] Grand Academician Ning Wanwo [1593-1665] General Ren Zhen Hong Chengchou, Pacifying General of Jiangnan [1593-1665] Wu Sangui, Prince of Western Pacification [1612-1678] Southern Ming/Rebels: Li Dingguo, Prince of Jin [1621-1662] Zheng Chenggong, Koxinga, Prince of Yanping [1624-1662] Works Cited: Dennerline, Jerry. "The Shun-chih Reign" in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9: The Ch'ing Dynasty, part 1: To 1800. "Records of Emperor Shizuzhang, Vol. 74" in Records of the Qing Dynasty [Qing Shilu]. Wakeman, Frederic Evans. 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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0:47.0	Episode 266, Shunja's personal rule. When last we checked in with the forbidden city of Beijing,
0:55.0	and yes indeed it certainly has been a while,
0:58.0	we had launched into the reign of the Great Ching's second formal monarch, the Shunja Emperor.
1:03.0	Now, given that it has been a hot minute, by which I mean about four months,
1:07.0	since we were looking hard at the goings-on of the Imperial Palace,
1:10.0	rather than the wilds of Taiwan,
1:12.0	I think it is worth a moment to catch back at the speed.
1:15.0	And to those of you now coming into this episode at some point in the future,
1:18.0	please forgive this bit of expository last time on Recap.
1:22.0	We pick back up on the New year's day of
1:24.2	1651 with the death of the prince regent Dorgan,
1:27.6	holder of the seal of great Changi in the name of the Shunz emperor
1:30.8	at the age of just 38. The official story is that he suffered what would be
1:35.5	his fatal injuries in the course of a hunting accident in Karahotun, the region of
1:40.3	modern Chungda Ha Bay, just north of Beijing proper.
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