End of Qing Dynasty
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- After overtaking China from the previous Ming dynasty, we continued to expand the territories of our empire 'till it reached its greatest extent under the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
- By the end of the Qing Dynasty, they had quite a bunch of ahievements...
- Our empire contained over 13 million square kilometers of territory, an area exceeded only by the Mongol Yuan dynasty. Our empire’s population was around 400 million at its greatest extent.
- Literature reached unprecedented heights during our era. Qing poetry continues to be a field of research due to its association with Chinese opera, women contributing to the field in large numbers for the first time, poets coming from all walks of life and greater role of vernacular languages.
- Some of the most well-known Chinese novels were written during the Qing period. One of China’s Four Great Classical Novels, Dream of the Red Chamber, was written somewhere in the middle of the 18th century. Also known as The Story of the Stone, it was authored by Cao Xueqin.
- The novel is considered not only a masterpiece of Chinese literature but also widely regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese fiction. There is an entire field of study known as Redology which is devoted to commentary and critique of Dream of the Red Chamber. Other famous novels of the period include Wu Jingzi’s The Scholars (1750) and Li Ruzhen’s Flowers in the Mirror (1827).
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