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  Manchu - Wikipedia
Manchus have been largely assimilated by the surrounding Han Chinese and the Manchu language is almost extinct, being spoken only among a small number of elderly people in remote areas of northeastern China; however, there are around 10,000 or so speakers of Sibe (Xibo), an innovative Manchu dialect spoken in the Ili region of Xinjiang.
The Manchu language is a member of the Tungusic language family, itself a member of the disputed Altaic language group, and is hypothetically related to the Korean, Mongolic and Turkic languages.
Written Manchu, however, was still used for the keeping of records and communication between the emperor and the Banner officials until the collapse of the dynasty.
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 Qing Dynasty - Wikipedia
Taking advantage of the political instability and popular rebellions convulsing the Ming dynasty, the highly organized military forces of the Manchus swept into the Ming capital of Beijing in 1644, and there remained until the Qing dynasty was overthrown in a revolution in 1911, with the last emperor abdicating early in 1912.
Manchu forbade the assembly of scholars or intellectuals into societies and moreover advocated "eight-part essay" ("stereotyped essay") as the format for imperial civil service exams.
The Manchu rulers, keenly aware of their own minority status, reinforced a strict policy of racial segregation between the Manchus and Mongols from Han Chinese for fear of their being assimilated by Han culture while living in close proximity with the newly subjugated Han people.
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 Qing Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Qing was the last imperial dynasty of China, its emperors occupying their capital, Beijing, from 1644 until 1912, when, in the aftermath of the 1911 revolution, a new Republic of China was established and the the last emperor abdicated.
It was founded not by the Han Chinese people who form the overwhelming majority of the population of China proper, but by the Manchus, a semi-nomadic people not even known by that name when they first rose to prominence in what is now northeastern China.
The Manchu rulers keenly aware of their own minority status reinforced a strict policy of racial segregation btween the Manchus and Mongols from Han Chinese for fear of their being assimilated by Han culture while living in close proximity with the subjugated Han people.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/qing_dynasty   (3844 words)

  
 Manchu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Today, Manchus have been largely assimilated by the surrounding Han Chinese and the Manchu language is almost extinct.
One theory claims that the name Manchu came from the Bodhisattva Manjusri (the Bodhisattva of Wisdom), of which Nurhaci claimed to be an incarnation.
These efforts were largely unsuccessful in that Manchus gradually adopted the customs and language of the surrounding Han Chinese and, by the 19th century, the Manchu language was rarely used even in the Imperial court.
www.encyclopedia-1.com /m/ma/manchu.html   (516 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Qing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The seeds of the huge population increase were perhaps sown during the stability of the first 200 years of Qing rule, with its economic expansion, the opening up of new land for cultivation, and the spread of certain crops that were able to grow in poor quality soil.
The Manchu state was formed by Nurhaci in the early 17th century.
For example, General Gordon, later the imperialist 'martyr' in the Sudan, is often accredited as having saved the Manchu dynasty from the Taiping insurrection.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Qing   (4548 words)

  
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Manchu Manchumăn´choo, people who lived in Manchuria for many centuries and who ruled China from 1644 until 1912.
Lists of clay tablets have been found at Nineveh and elsewhere; the library at Alexandria had subject lists of its books.
He consolidated the Manchu tribes under his control and founded the administration that later ruled China as the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1912).
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 ja #28288 #27954 #20154 The Manchu manju...
Manchu was originally a tribal group of the Jurchen that Nurhaci belonged to.
In 1616 a Manchu leader, Nurhaci (1559-1626) established the Later Jin Dynasty (Amaga Aisin Gurun, 後金 Hòu Jīn), domestically called the State of Manchu (manju gurun), and unified Manchu tribes.
Plaque at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, in both Chinese (left) and Manchu (right) Near the end of the Qing dynasty, Manchus were portrayed as outside colonizers by Chinese nationalists such as Sun Yat-Sen, even though the Republican revolution he brought about was supported by many reform-minded Manchu officials and military officers.
www.geodatabase.de /Manchu   (546 words)

  
 List of Manchu clans
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