- Jan 2017
- Republika Srpska
After the Qing fell from power in 1912, there was a movement that proposed the restoration of the Ming dynasty and crowning of Zhu Yuxun, the Marquis of Extended Grace and the descendant of the Ming emperors. This never happened, but what if it did? Would this restored Ming survive? There were groups of people that would have definitely opposed the restoration, groups like the republicans and of course Yuan Shikai would probably be opposed as well. Would the majority of the Chinese people even support this? I know that one of the famous anti-Qing slogans was "oppose the Qing, restore the Ming" , but I never really saw this slogan as a real expression of Ming loyalism, but rather a slogan that deliberately invoked the memories of an earlier, Qing-free age. There was a branch of the Chinese Royalist Party that would have accepted any restoration of the monarchy, therefore this branch might have supported the Ming, but there was another branch that pushed for the restoration of the Qing and Qing only. This hypothetical Ming restoration would have been quite unprecedented in history because a dynasty would have returned to power centuries after losing it. I don't think this restored Ming had any chance of survival, but it is fun to speculate.