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| | ArtWorld CHINA - Capital Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12) |
 | | The founders of the last dynasty, the Qing, were Manchus from beyond the Great Wall, and they continued to maintain a secondary capital in their tribal homelands at Shenyang, in modern Liaoning province. |
 | | As the centre of state affairs, the capital supported large numbers of educated and privileged members of society, their extensive households, and the vast numbers of advisers, clerks, servants, guards, tradesmen, religious, and entertainers on whom they relied. |
 | | Capital cities were also great commercial centres, thronged with merchants from all over China and many other parts of the world. |
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