SHUNZHI EMPEROR DOCUMENTARY - FALL OF THE MING - MANCHU CONQUEST OF CHINA

The Shunzhi emperor was the first emperor of the Qing dynasty to rule from Beijing. His rule would see the fall of the Ming dynasty, and establishment of the Qing in Beijing and later all of China proper. I present to you his life in this Shunzhi emperor documentary, as well as the fall of the Ming and Manchu conquest of China.
If you would like to make a donation, here is my paypal : paypal.me/historyofchina
Many thanks !
= VIDEO CREDITS =
* "Young Son of heaven", the tortuous life of the Shunzhi Emperor, episode 40 ( • 《少年天子》大结局40--顺治皇帝的曲折人生... )
= MUSIC CREDITS =
* Wanderers of the Steppe (Total War: Atilla OST)
* Fiddler of the Plains (Total War: Atilla OST)
* They're coming - Alexander Hof
* Qing court music
* Epic Chase/Battle music - Jonny Easton
= MAIN SOURCES =
* Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912) , (1943), Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.
= TAGS =
Qing Dynasty founding
Manchu conquest of China
Qing dynasty documentary
Qing Emperors series

[@whitefrostfilene3580]

As a Chinese, it's sometimes unbelievable the Manchus were once foreign force, because it always make me think about my legit Beijing accent Manchu classmates in high school.

[@olivernikolai3045]

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me

[@jobaydaahmed876]

hey. if you see this can we talk privately? I need to talk with a Chinese person who is well aware of their history desperately for a project I'm working on. thank you.

[@sarawillards962]

Which means the country changed a great integration.

[@leaveme3559]

​@@jobaydaahmed876nice try ccp

[@jungkim1093]

그건 예전 중국정세에서 니가 믿고싶은 착각이고. 이들이 만주족이라는 정체성을 가지고 있던데? 티를 낼수 있겠냐? 불이익오는데. 왜 숨기고 구분할까?미국도 안그러고 뭉쳐 잘 사는데 그럼 중국은 다민족 중화라면서 왜 잡음이 많은이유는 멀까? 억지로 니 좋을대로 짜맞추지말고 순리대로 살아라 주변이 인정도 안해주지만 인과응보라고 요즘 중국 정세흐름으로 고유정체성을 드러내고 있는 추세던데 ~ 이래저래 거져먹은거 겸손하지 못하고 욕심만 잔뜩 부리니 여기저기 고통받고 혼란만 주는 민폐국 너희들~~

[@troydavis1]

I am the admnistrator of the facebook group for chinese studies at the university of strasbourg, will put this video there for all to watch.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks so much !

[@gkdlmlnl7697]

@@History_of_China please make documentary about the Zheng family wealth n power, how they rule Taiwan and east asia maritime trade

[@sofjanmustopoh7232]

👍 your English is top notch and being a native Chinese ( I presumed ) your Chinese pronunciation is also on point This make the BEST Chinese history channel Your Manchu pronunciations is also top notch 👍

[@elenastone6011]

He speaks with a bit of posh British accent (Queen's english) common to those who studied at British Public (ptivate) schools.

[@Krushnow]

@@elenastone6011 Nah, if you ask me, he's a Swede. Myself being Swedish I can clearly detect the telltale signs of a slight Swedish accent.

[@arkuis]

I feel very fortunate to have found this channel. Thanks for making these very interesting videos on Chinese history. There is a great need for them on KZbin if you ask me.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks a lot !

[@qianyifan-nl6kd]

Really good video , I'm a chinese who seek my country's history for many years,thank you!

[@johnkrieg9368]

Great channel.. Please put up a series about Zheng He and the Sino Japanese wars..

[@History_of_China]

Thank you ! Those are definitely subjects I want to cover :)

[@freyaglynyen9627]

I really like the fact that he did not put any ad into the video because if he did it would be very disturbing

[@History_of_China]

Thanks! Yes I don't want my videos to have any ads :)

[@EurasiaOnYT]

Great video!

[@ozgurozhan192]

Well done. I would appreciate authentic subtitles. Thanks for the efforts.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks ! I'll try to add subtitles as I go on, but it takes a lot of time

[@gzpo]

Very good, thank you. I enjoyed the graphics and especially the pronunciation of names - educational. Great details, too. 💖😎

[@History_of_China]

Thank you !

[@andrelu3561]

Great video, very informative! I want to echo some of the other comments that the graphics are great and your pronunciation of all the names are spot on. I have never subscribed to a patrion before, but if you have one I will subscribe.

[@History_of_China]

Thank you so much ! I'm considering patreon, but I'm not sure about making one yet

[@PureVikingPowers]

Best channel on youtube 🙂 Can't get enough

[@History_of_China]

Thanks ^_^

[@guaylayhua5653]

Great Video, thanks for sharing the historical Chinese Dynasty…which we were far away of the past … very interesting. 👍🙏🌷

[@tanggaozong6533]

I'm so happy to have found this channel😊I've always had a fascination with chinese history. I can't wait for you to make vidoes about the han and tang dynasties!!

[@History_of_China]

Thanks !

[@KS-wy6ky]

Ming was killed by endless infighting between political entities, let this be a lesson to all future regimes.

[@ironmantis25]

Are you referring to america?

[@azuaraikrezeul1677]

you can blame the eunuchs for that.

[@silentone11111111]

Great vid. I’m late to pick up on your stuff. I’m enjoying the depth you go into things. 😀

[@History_of_China]

Cheers! Glad you enjoy my work :)

[@AGS363]

You deserve more views.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks :)

[@seenoevil85]

I like your channel a lot, but you need to put more information regarding Ming dynasty. The world recognizes medieval China through the Ming dynasty, also they the last stint of imperial glory for Hun Chinese. You content on the Qing dynasty, is amazing, I understood many things from your lectures, that I could never through reading books, because of my lack of understanding of Chinese culture. Please put similar content regarding the Mings. Particularly the Wanli Emperor whom I always found extremely fascinating, inspite of all the controversy and eccentricity attached to the last year's of his long reign. In Short, more content please, on the Ming dynasty, and much appreciation and respect for your content on the Qing dynasty.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks for your comment! I definitely want to talk about the Ming dynasty, but since I resumed my studies I have so little time to make my videos. I will get to it eventually though :)

[@dalesnow1707]

onward to the kangxi emperor up to his grandson please! keep up the good series!

[@CitrusFruitMuffin]

He actually already made a Kangxi video, it's just on a different channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3_FoqeFr9tpjqs

[@ericgalopa9439]

Félicitations, j'aimerais que l'on puisse se revoir à ma boutique, amitiés . eric du tibet bleu

[@MeetJohnnyNg]

Learn so much about the dynasties of China. I think Qing dynasty would’ve survive if there was no war from within. Especially the opium war

[@baluumccarron4735]

Can you do something on the Ming Empire?

[@History_of_China]

I'll be working on it after I do a few more Qing videos :)

[@petercroves8562]

History of Li Zicheng would be nice one

[@History_of_China]

Will definitely talk about him when I do the Ming series :)

[@Henrodful]

Great biographic trilogy of the Manchu conquest and administration of China (and beyond). Will you do a video for all the Qing emperors?

[@History_of_China]

Thank you ! In time, I'd like to :) might take a break on the Manchu emperors for a couple videos though.

[@Henrodful]

@@History_of_China Indeed, sir. Any video you produce is quality, and it is a joy to watch, keep them up. If you would mind answering one question, sir: Did you narrate (and perhaps even produced) the video about the Kangxi emperor on the CaspianReport KZbin channel? The title of that video was simply "The last Golden Age of Imperial China", hosted by a person called Vincent, who sounds identical to you. Is that you?

[@History_of_China]

@@Henrodful Thank you sir ! Yes, that was me in Caspian Report's video. I did the research and audio, it was a nice experience :) might do another collaboration soon !

[@abmong]

Any reference to what the uniform of the Green Standard Army looked like? Did the actually wear green? I haven’t been able to find even a description anywhere. Only the uniforms of the 8 banners. Also were the Mongol and Han 8 banners effectively carbon copies of the Qing/Manchu 8 banners in uniform and banners.

[@History_of_China]

I don't think the Qing armies' uniforms were not standardised nation wide. They would probably have different kind of uniforms depending on the region. I don't think they ever wore green though. While the Mongol and Han 8 banners were maybe not exact copies of the Manchu ones, they probably had similar styles of uniforms and banners :)

[@abmong]

@@History_of_China Thanks man, I was wondering whether they had standardised it since they codified the 8 banners into regimented colours. It seems like maybe they just wore the dress down unarmoured version like the ones worn by the 8 banners. Also do you happen to know what the characters on the white circle seen on those dress down uniforms stood for? I've seen different ones on different uniforms, do the characters stand for the city/region/banner force the soldier belonged to? If so, are the naming convention more practical like the name of the actual city/region/banner or are they more honorific names? Just wondering what those characters denote since I can't read Manchu or Mandarin. I'm really into historical military uniforms and fashions if you hadn't noticed 😂 I like designing fantasy versions, so I like to get a good working knowleged of the real ones so I can ground my fantasy designs on reality.

[@Traqor9]

Qualitatif

[@dylreesYT]

Are you British? You sound British in the CaspianReport video. I don't plan to watch this video but a handful of your videos seem interesting to me so I've subscribed.

[@History_of_China]

Thanks ! I'm part British :)

[@skeptic781]

@@History_of_China are you Chinese?

[@fuzzyco.3336]

do you ever plan on making a video on the short lived Shun dynasty, with the Dashing King?

[@History_of_China]

I probably will! First I need to finish the Yuan dynasty and tackle the Ming

[@duxae1617]

Beijing populace is like "Thank you for freeing us!" Manchu: "I wouldn't say freed, more like, under new management."

[@rolandorodriguez4504]

Tbf the city came from a brutal looting caused by Li, so even if the Qing took over, it was seen as better for them

[@franciscomm7675]

Can you tell us when are you going to release your next video?

[@History_of_China]

Hi ! My computer broke down when I'd nearly finished my video about Liu Bei. I'm trying to get it fixed without losing the data. In anycase, I'll have a new video in January :)

[@khanusmagnus577]

5:15 what is the music? None of the song names you gave match this music, and there is no such song as "They are coming - Alexander Hof" i can't even find a guy named Alexander Hof....Fix your description damn...

[@road-eo6911]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYPbmICXmdRre6c (This was the music used)

[@brettstarks1846]

It’s crazy to ponder how a small Manchu minority could lord over hundreds of millions of Chinese for centuries. Even crazier how they were able to survive the Taiping rebellion, Nian Rebellion, Second Opium War, and other conflicts around that time period without being overthrown by the much more numerous Han.

[@solocanaanite4655]

This Video is extremely lacking in detail but for some reason is giving me the details I need, I’m a few videos in and I can tell the Han Chinese from the Yue/Cantonese people. I wish there were more videos of the prior dynasties

[@MrLangam]

Wow. Excellent videos! Are you Chinese too?

[@History_of_China]

Thank you ! Not at all, I'm from Europe ! :)

[@steveyuen8772]

@@History_of_China My 12th generation paternal ancestor was Prince Regent Dorgon featured frequently in this documentary. You spoke my mind when you said Dorgon was probably assassinated (at the age of 38). How did I get my name "Yuen"? Should it be Aisin-Gioro, instead? In February 1651, a few weeks after the death of Dorgon, Shunzhi ordered the execution of all heirs of Dorgon to remove the threat to the throne from these males. As you obviously know, Dorgon was a credible contender to the throne both in 1626 and 1643. Shunzhi then wrote into the imperial ancestral records that Dorgon had no sons at all but only one daughter, out of a principal spouse and ten consorts married over a period of 15 years. One son did escape execution, fleeing all the way to Guangdong, settling at just a few miles north of present-day Macau. He changed his name to "Yuen", because this is a Han Chinese name good for camouflage, yet, when written in traditional Chinese, resembled 95% of "gon", as in "Do-r-gon". Yes, if you write Dorgon in Chinese, it consists of three characters. He named the piece of land on which he settled "Hai-zhou", a combination of the Hai-xi Jurchen tribe of his grandma and the "Jian-zhou Jurchen tribe of his grandpa, Nurchai. I have a picture of the imperial edict detailing the "crimes" Dorgon committed before his death. Thirteen members of my clan - first cousins and my previous generation (my own father and uncles) - all resembling someone in the Qing imperial clan, including five emperors and their descendants. I cannot explain this resemblance except by a conspiracy theory relating to why Shunzhi's mother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuangwen, was not entombed until 38 years after her death. She was not even buried alongside other members of the imperial clan, despite her status as Emperor Hongtaji's wife, mother of Emperor Shunzhi, and grandma of Emperor Kangxi.

[@xiongnu6373]

@@History_of_China i hope you know who's chi you? 5000yrs history.

[@weekiang6247]

Much of Manchurian now part of Russia

[@dorjbayar1286]

Other part of Manchu is China's part. Manchu people disappeared, remaining few Manchu are hiding among Chinese.

[@kurekotake5663]

These videos are amazing, but I must say that the series on Qing history seem to be based largely on Arthur Hummel's work, which is outdated. Some references from more recent scholarship could perhaps be helpful.

[@ilhamthegamer6115]

6:05

[@przemekrepetowicz8297]

I have a naive question. I know virtuallly nothing about the history of China but I do not understand what meant "the Manchu conquest of China". Were Manchu people of different origin as the Chinese.? If yes, they must have been living next to each other for centuries -- pretty much like the Germans and the Polish did live next to each other -- and they must have been competing with each other all over the time. Why is it that the Manchus became a threat for the Han Chinese just in the early seventeenth century only and not before?. Have there been no wars between the Manchus and the Chinese beforehand? How comes that the conflict came into existence only in the early seventeenth century?

[@History_of_China]

The Manchu and Han Chinese are indeed originally two very disctinct people groups. The Manchu descend from the Jurchen, which prospered in Manchuria, while the Han stayed mainly in China proper before the Qing dynasty. However, there was indeed much fighting prior to that period: The Chinese, during several dynasties, conquered southern parts of the region as protectorates or tributary states (though the Jurchen remained an obscure people for the Chinese). In the early 12th century, the Jurchen rebelled against their overlord Khitans of the Liao dynasty and managed to conquer a great chunk of China, establishing the Jin dynasty. The Ming dynasty was later able to subdue Manchuria, whiche became the Nurgan Regional Military Commission. The astonishing events of the 17th century is that the Jurchen (who by now became the Manchu) were able to conquer all of China from a relatively weak base, and hold it for centuries. During the Qing dynasty, the Manchus were gradually assimilated into Han Chinese culture, embracing its language and customs. Han settling in Manchuria and intermarriage basically made the Manchu more or less indistinguishable from the Han.

[@yiyongfu5567]

the Manchu is a branch of or perhaps descendent from Altai people, because the Manchurian language is a branch of linguistic family of Altai

[@roboky101]

My favorite line "...there was really nothing the Chinese population could do..."

[@IamAWESOME3980]

Kanxi is my favorite emperor of all time.

[@punlokomovicdevinho7611]

My most favorite Qing Emperor 1 Kangxi 2 Qianlong 3 Guangxu My least favorite Qing Emperor 1 Xianfeng 2 Yongzheng 3 Tongzhi

[@prasanth2601]

@@punlokomovicdevinho7611 Because they caused the famous "century of humiliation"

[@Historyteller346]

​@@punlokomovicdevinho7611Yongzheng was capable thought and his 13 year long reign was part of the Hight Qing era...

[@phased-arraych.9150]

I hope you plan to cover Kangxi and Qianlong eventually. You can't discuss Qing history without mentioning those two.

[@History_of_China]

I will of course :) I just have a couple of videos coming out first on other subjects

[@darkages2.035]

Shunzhi Emperor

[@darkages2.035]

He died of Smallpox

[@miliba]

when you conquer China but China conquers your soul

[@uncommon_name9337]

I wonder how neighboring and European powers reacted to the transition?

[@ahmedmaa4380]

I don't care much about China, but I almost cried when I first read about the tragic end of the Ming and the emperor hanging itself..

[@shinri]

Youve butchered Li ZiCheng's name..... Ouch

[@datboiderrty]

They’re why mandarin is mainly spoken in China

[@MarksmanSpecialist]

hahah to this day all big ruler " put an end on corruption"

[@ryuishisama5149]

I feel like Qianlong is greater than Kangxi

[@punlokomovicdevinho7611]

In land area yes, but not in general management. Nobody can come close to Kangi's management.

[@Historyteller346]

​@@punlokomovicdevinho7611Yongzheng ?

[@jojotwice8918]

sounds like dorgon was a great "emperor"

[@tedcleveland8488]

if you think about it.... Manchurian are actually mongolian, both using the same language...so technically mongolian conquered china since yuan dynasty until communist PRC ... genghis khan the real legend

[@menagerantoine4970]

Not really. They didn't speak the same language, as one was part of the Mongolic language family and the other is from the Tungusic family. The Manchu, and their Jurchen ancestors, were sedentary not nomadic, and practiced agriculture and hunting as opposed to herding. They used the same script and both practiced horse archery, that's about it.

[@ganaa1608]

Menager Antoine Sorry. Manchu was a nomadic

[@ganaa1608]

Menager Antoine Just tells about Yuan empire. It was like a Mongolic family. Where is the Han nation living in? Why did they build a great wall?. Then you can see how different from Mongolic and Han nations.

[@menagerantoine4970]

@@ganaa1608 Never talked about any Han nations. But sorry, the Manchu, and their Jurchen ancestors were not nomadic. They lived in sedentary settlements but practiced certain nomadic customs, such as raiding the Han and horse archery. I challenge you to find a source that states they were nomadic, meaning they moved around year round to find new locations to set up camp. Why would they be nomadic when they fed themselves through agriculture and had only limited herds.

[@steveyuen8772]

@@menagerantoine4970 You are right. I am a 13th generation descendant of Nurhaci (1559-1626), grandfather of Emperor Shunzhi in this documentary.

[@Team.Melli.Report]

Average age of Qing Emperors is like 9.5 lol.

[@freelanceart1019]

Shamanistic bhuddism?

[@user-qj3tj3es1o]

Qing is not China. Qing is Korea. Qing dynasty is Kim dynasty.

[@kjjajaajajja2585]

Lol Actually manchus formed qing dynasty. Manchu are not Chinese nor koreans. They had their own language and writing system

[@rayray6490]

So when Qing invaded Joseon in 1627 and 1636, it was basically civil war? How come the Koreans didn’t tie their hair in a queue like the Qing?