#252 - Ming 37: The Donglin Debacle
The History of China
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The Rise and Fall of the Donglin Group in Beijing
During the early 1620s then, this loosely organized Donglin group emerged as a dominant faction at the Tianxie court. But its power did not go unchallenged and from time to time it too suffered significant political reversals. Zhou Jiamo and Liu Yi Qing resigned after having been repeatedly impeached by officials said to have been acting on orders of Wei Zhong Xian.
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