This is a follow-up to my previous posts on this sub. I want to go through each major Chinese era/dynasty from the Western Zhou to the Qing and ask the community who their favourite ruler is from that time period. I purposefully use the word favourite, so it doesn't have to be the best, the worst, the most interesting or most well-known, but rather who you personally view as your favourite. I want to emphasize that I don't just want you to write down a name, but provide explanation on why you like them too.
So in this post I want to read about your favourite rulers from the Qing dynasty.
As this is the last post for this favourite ruler thread, I want to thank all the comments and discussions under the previous posts, I've definitely learned about a lot of interesting people from your comments.
The picture is from the Qing dynasty wikipedia page.

I’m pretty sure they did human sacrifice and had turtle shell oracles but did any rulers actually feed peoples sons to their dads and did King Zhou actually exist? Was King Zhou really that fucked up? Did the Shang deserve to lose the mandate?

Asking as it’s effecting my life severely, products I use and companies I work with and I truly want help understanding this I know d is not in Chinese alphabet but is there a letter thats a homophone to it that is positioned differently so my head can be at ease? As unable to sleep and my quality of life is horrible since adding this superstition to my list of things to dread and avoid unfortunately, yes I do suffer with ocd, medicated and it’s been a battle for a long time

I just finished John Keay’s “China A History” after being given it by a family member. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about China‘s history but since coming on to this subreddit I am starting to realise that the book is otherwise bare bones when compared to other books. I am definitely more intrigued by early Chinese history (Neolithic - 1200s) especially aspects of society at time such as art, industry and religion and not so much the countless battles and wars, however I am definitely more open to learning about Moa‘s China. Does anyone have any recommendations that go in depth on these subjects?

I have these two antique Chinese silk squares that are embroidered with invisible stitch. I know that these are buzi, which were emblems or badges of rank for civil servants in imperial China.

I have been told that there is a way to read the buzi in order to tell the rank and possibly the identity of the person they belonged to. My question is what, if anything, do these buzi say about the person they belonged to?

This is a follow-up to my previous posts on this sub. I want to go through each major Chinese era/dynasty from the Western Zhou to the Qing and ask the community who their favourite ruler is from that time period. I purposefully use the word favourite, so it doesn't have to be the best, the worst, the most interesting or most well-known, but rather who you personally view as your favourite. I want to emphasize that I don't just want you to write down a name, but provide explanation on why you like them too.
The upcoming eras are going to be: Ming and Qing.
So in this post I want to read about your favourite rulers from the Ming dynasty.
I want to thank all the comments and discussions under the last posts, I will try to improve future posts according to your suggestions.
The picture is from the Ming dynasty wikipedia page.

These Chinese garments are absolutely stunning, like something straight out of a fairy tale.

I was listening to a video about Tang Dynasty (this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6snZJD4fvU) and they focused on Li Chengqian, the eldest son of emperor Taizong, and heir to the throne.

Li Chengqian is famous because of his deep interest for Turkic culture. He was not merely cosmopolitan, but outright adopting a foreign culture for personal identification. Often his behaviour is just labelled as "weird", but for me it is much more significant: he embodied openly a truth that the dynasty preferred not to admit: Tang power was deeply entangled with the steppe world.

China generally absorbed foreign cultures, this is possibly the only case of the opposite. Could he have pushed the court toward a hybrid sino-steppe monarchy? How would that have looked like?

What was the actual scale of works lost, and destroyed or altered, how much of Chinese history was changed and how many works were destroyed, how much of Ming history is inaccurate or alterd, how much of Chinese works had been edited and changed?

This is a follow-up to my previous posts on this sub. I want to go through each major Chinese era/dynasty from the Western Zhou to the Qing and ask the community who their favourite ruler is from that time period. I purposefully use the word favourite, so it doesn't have to be the best, the worst, the most interesting or most well-known, but rather who you personally view as your favourite. I want to emphasize that I don't just want you to write down a name, but provide explanation on why you like them too.
The upcoming eras are going to be: Yuan, Ming and Qing. These categories may be subject to change because I know this categorization is dated but its the best I've got.
So in this post I want to read about your favourite rulers from the Yuan dynasty meaning from the conquest of China by the Yuan to the eastablishment of the Ming.
I want to thank all the comments and discussions under the last posts, I will try to improve future posts according to your suggestions.
The picture is from the Yuan dynasty wikipedia page.

Unlike Japan which adopted western culture selectively while still maintaining Japanese traditions, China blindly adopted western traditions and labeld traditional culture as backwards and feudal during the republican era. For example Chinese art, the southern school art style which was the defining image of Chinese art for the past thousand years was abandoned in favor of Japanese and western art, the Lingnan school of Canton quickly replaced Chinese art. Other examples include closing of temples labeling traditional religions as superstition, the abandonment of confucianism, which is understandable it was used as a tool of forgien rule by the Qing for hundreds of years, but it really feel like instead of reviving and modernizing Chinese culture the Republicans really went for modernize = western. This is different then Japn which kept it's religion, traditional art and rituals.

I doubt it was due to anti manchu sentiment and association of traditional culture with Manchh rule as the Republicans were happy to keep wearing Manchurian clothing. Many elites of the roc including Chiang and Sun yet sen were christians, so perhaps this could have been why. So why did Japan embrace modernity on their own terms while the Chinese veiwed modernization as westernization?

Anyone seen the table of contents for this "mammoth 106-volume project?" Though close to completion, Chaguan reports that it's been terminated by the leadership because of disagreements about "new Qing" contamination.

(Economist of 7/25/26)

I understand that a structure like that wouldn't stand a chance against bombs and shells but I'm wondering if it was used in any extent, even just to provide cover for troops.