#257 - Qing 3: Lose Your Hair, Or Lose Your Head

Manchu occupation of the lands south of the Yangtze River proceed smoothly... right up until Prince Dorgon is convinced by some of his advisors that everyone needs a haircut.

Within Southern Ming, multiple princes vie for power - such as it it - at pretty much the worst possible time to be having a throne-fight.

Time Period Covered:

1645-1646 CE

Major Historical Actors:

Qing:

Prince Dorgon, Regent of Great Qing [1612-1650]

Dodo, Prince of Yu [1614-1649]

Bolo, Prince Duanzhong [1613-1652]

Hong Chengchou [1593-1665]

Southern Ming:

Zhu Yujian, Prince of Tang/Longwu Emperor [1602-1646]

Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, Regent of Great Ming [1618-1662]

General Zheng Hongkui [d. 1654]

Zheng Zhilong (Nicholas Iquan Gaspard), Marquis of Tong'an [1604-1661]

Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) [1624-1662]

Major Works Cited:

Dennerline, Jerry. "The Shun-chih Reiegn" in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9, Part One: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800

Struve, Lynn A. "The Southern Ming, 1644-1662" in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7 The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, part I.

Wakeman, Frederic. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China.

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