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The ___MASK47___ , officially the Great Qing , also called the Qing Empire or the Manchu dynasty , was the last imperial dynasty of China , ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief , abortive restoration in 1917 . It was preceded by the ___MASK59___ and succeeded by the Republic of China . The Qing multi - cultural empire lasted almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for the modern Chinese state . The Jiaqing Emperor ( 13 November 1760  2 September 1820 ), personal name ___MASK23___ Yongyan , was the seventh emperor of the Manchu - led Qing dynasty , and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China from 1796 to 1820 . He was the 15th son of the Qianlong Emperor . During his reign , he prosecuted Heshen , the corrupt favourite of his father , and attempted to restore order within the Qing Empire and curb the smuggling of opium into China . The Yongzheng Emperor ( 13 December 1678  8 October 1735 ), born Yinzhen , was the fifth emperor of the Manchu - led ___MASK47___ and the third Qing emperor to rule over China proper . He reigned from 1723 to 1735 . A hard - working ruler , the Yongzheng Emperor ' s main goal was to create an effective government at minimal expense . Like his father , the Kangxi Emperor , the Yongzheng Emperor used military force to preserve the dynasty ' s position . His reign was known for being despotic , efficient , and vigorous . Consort Dun ( 1746 -- 1806 ) was a consort of the Qianlong Emperor of the ___MASK47___ . Consort Dun was born of the Manchu Wang (  ) clan . Her personal name is unknown . Her father was Sige (  ) , a commander (  ) of the Plain White Banner of the Eight Banners . Lady Wang entered the Forbidden City in 1762 during the Qianlong Emperor ' s reign . She was chosen to join the imperial harem and was given the rank of First Class Female Attendant Yong (  ) . In 1770 she was promoted to the position of Imperial Concubine Dun (  ) . In 1775 Lady Wang gave birth to the Qianlong Emperor ' s tenth daughter Gurun Princess Hexiao . The Qianlong Emperor was very fond of the princess and he started showing favour towards Lady Wang . A year later in 1776 , Lady Wang was elevated to the status of Consort Dun (  ) . In 1778 Lady Wang had a palace maid severely beaten for making a minor mistake and the maid died from her injuries . Homicide was a grave offence under the laws of the ___MASK47___ and Lady Wang ought to be harshly punished . However , in consideration of how Gurun Princess Hexiao would be affected if her mother was heavily penalised , the Qianlong Emperor eventually decided to demote Lady Wang to the rank of Imperial Concubine Dun . Lady Wang was also ordered to compensate the maid ' s family with 100 taels of silver , and pay half of the financial penalty levied on her servants , whose salaries were suspended for a year or two . Two years later in 1780 Lady Wang was restored to her status as a Consort . Lady Wang died in 1806 during the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor , the Qianlong Emperor ' s successor . She was interred in the Yuling Mausoleum (  ) for the Qing emperors ' concubines . The Kangxi Emperor ( 4 May 165420 December 1722 ) was the fourth emperor of the ___MASK47___ , the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Shanhai Pass near Beijing , and the second Qing emperor to rule over that part of China , from 1661 to 1722 . China proper , Inner China or the Eighteen Provinces was a term used by Western writers on the Manchu ___MASK47___ to express a distinction between the core and frontier regions of China . There is no fixed extent for China proper , as many administrative , cultural , and linguistic shifts have occurred in Chinese history . One definition refers to the original area of Chinese civilization , the North China Plain ; another to the " Eighteen Provinces " system of the ___MASK47___ . There is no direct translation for " China proper " in the Chinese language due to differences in terminology used by the Qing to refer to the regions and the expression is controversial among scholars , particularly in China , partly because it implies the frontier regions outside China proper are in some way separate or even illegitimate territories of China . The Qianlong Emperor ( 25 September 1711  7 February 1799 ) was the sixth emperor of the Manchu - led ___MASK47___ , and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper . Born ___MASK23___ Hongli , the fourth son of the Yongzheng Emperor , he reigned officially from 11 October 1735 to 8 February 1796 . On 8 February , he abdicated in favour of his son , the Jiaqing Emperor  a filial act in order not to reign longer than his grandfather , the illustrious Kangxi Emperor . Despite his retirement , however , he retained ultimate power as the Emperor Emeritus ( or Retired Emperor ) until his death in 1799 ; he thus was the longest - reigning " de facto " ruler in the history of China , and dying at the age of 87 , the longest - living . As a capable and cultured ruler inheriting a thriving empire , during his long reign the Qing Empire reached its most splendid and prosperous era , boasting a large population and economy , with various military campaigns expand its territory to the largest extent . In his late years , eclipsed in effectiveness of his rule , with rampant corruption and wastefulness in his court , and a stagnant civil society , the empire was in gradual decline . The ___MASK59___ was the ruling dynasty of China  then known as the  for 276 years ( 1368  1644 ) following the collapse of the Mongol - led ___MASK4___ . The Ming , described by some as " one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history ," was the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese . Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng ( who established the Shun dynasty , soon replaced by the Manchu - led Qing dynasty ), regimes loyal to the Ming throne  collectively called the Southern Ming  survived until 1683 . ___MASK23___ is the imperial clan of Manchu emperors of the Qing dynasty . The House of ___MASK23___ ruled China from 1644 until the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 - 12 , which established a republican government in its place . The word " aisin " means " gold " in the Manchu language , and " gioro " is the name of the ___MASK23___ ' s ancestral home in present - day Yilan , Heilongjiang Province . In Manchu custom , families are identified first by their " hala " (  ), i . e . their family or clan name , and then by " mukn " (  ), the more detailed classification , typically referring to individual families . In the case of ___MASK23___ , Aisin is the " mukn ", and Gioro is the " hala ". Other members of the Gioro clan include Irgen Gioro (  ), Susu Gioro (  ) and Sirin Gioro (  ).