The early 1900s saw increasing civil disorder, despite reform talk by Cixi and the Qing government.

This was partially a continuation of the condemnations of Confucianism by intellectuals and activists in the early 20th Century as a cause of the ethnocentric close-mindedness and refusal of the Qing Dynasty to modernize that led to the tragedies that befell China in the 19th Century.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

Classical Chinese painting continued on into the early modern Qing Dynasty, with highly realistic portrait paintings like seen in the late Ming Dynasty of the early 17th century.

Ji ( Chinese: 戟 ), the Chinese halberd, was used as a military weapon in one form or another from at least as early as the Shang dynasty until the end of the Qing dynasty.

Furthermore, similar to Xinjiang which was converted into a province earlier, the Qing government also turned Manchuria into three provinces in the early 20th century, officially known as the " Three Northeast Provinces ", and established the post of Viceroy of Three Northeast Provinces to oversee these provinces, making the total number of regional viceroys to nine.

From the early Qing Dynasty, the central government was characterized by a system of dual appointments by which each position in the central government had a Manchu and a Han Chinese assigned to it.

The temple fell into ruin and was home to only a few monks until the early 18th century, when the government of the Qing Dynasty patronized and restored the temple.

Taiwan has historically benefited from the flight of many well-educated, wealthy Chinese to settle on the island: during early Qing Dynasty, the preceding Ming dynasty supporters survived for a brief period of time in exile in Taiwan, and in 1949, as the Chinese Communist Party gained control of mainland China, two million Kuomintang ( KMT ) supporters fled to the island.

Chinatowns in Asia are widespread with a large concentration of overseas Chinese in East Asia and Southeast Asia and ethnic Chinese whose ancestors came from southern China – particularly the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan – and settled in countries such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam centuries ago — starting as early as the Tang Dynasty, but mostly notably in the 17th through the 19th centuries ( during the reign of the Qing Dynasty ), and well into the 20th century.

This name was used in Chinese documents until the early 20th century, when Manchuria was converted into three provinces by the late Qing government.

The scholar Gu Yanwu of the early Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ) estimated that the previous Ming Dynasty had to employ 47, 004 full-time laborers recruited by the lijia corvée system in order to maintain the entire canal system.

* the Manchu language during the early Qing Dynasty

The border between the Russian and the Qing empires ( the present border between Russia and Kazakhstan in the north and Mongolia and China in the south ) was settled in the early 19th century.

The early Qing dynasty developed in two main strands: the Orthodox school, and the Individualist painters, both of which followed the theories of Dong Qichang, but emphasizing very different aspects.

In the early 18th century, the Qing court finally felt secure enough to establish direct control over minority areas as well.

Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty was varied, self-conscious, and experimental.

In China, however, there was no counterpart to the 19th century European explosion of revolution and romanticism The classic novels of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, represented a pinnacle not reached again.

The map was created during the early Qing, and mentions that " presently " the Jurchen ( Tartari del Jin Dynasty ( 1115-1234 ) | Kin ) have already conquered the rest of China

Liaodong ( Leao-Tong ) in the early Qing, surrounded by the Willow Palisade.

It is thought by a number of Russian linguists and historians that the Ducher people encountered by Russian explorers on the middle Amur and lower Sungari in the early 1650s ( who were evacuated by the Qing authorities further south a few years later ) were the descendants of the Amur Jurchens, and that the word " Ducher " itself is simply a variation of jušen.

During the late Ming and early Qing eras, the Jurchen tribe in the northeast was divided into 3 parts called Haixi ( 海西, " west of the sea "), Jianzhou ( 建洲, " establishing a state ") and Yeren ( 野人, " wild people ").

Dorgon ( Manchu: 16px ; literally " badger " in Manchu ; 17 November 1612 – 31 December 1650 ) was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing Dynasty.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

Andronikos ' early years were spent alternately in pleasure and in military service.

He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah.

The generals of the early 1990s had been junior officers in the early 1960s and had witnessed the military coup in 1964.

An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.

" The early 1950s literature transformed blitzkrieg into a historical military doctrine, which carried the signature of Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian.

The Emperor had risen early to begin prayers for divine guidance when spies from Ras Alula, his chief military advisor, brought him news that the Italians were advancing.

In early 1950, the U. S. took its first efforts to oppose communist forces in Vietnam ; planned to form a West German army, and prepared proposals for a peace treaty with Japan that would guarantee long-term U. S. military bases there.

In early 1950, the United States made its first commitment to form a peace treaty with Japan that would guarantee long-term U. S. military bases.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

In early 1919, the military control and the military section of VCheKa were merged into one body, the Special Section of the Republic.

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.

Medieval military doctrine employed them as part of a combined-arms force along with various kinds of foot troops ; however medieval chroniclers tended to pay undue attention to the knights at the expense of the rank and file, which led early students of military history to suppose that this heavy cavalry was the only force that mattered on medieval European battlefields, which was not the case.

Even then light cavalry remained an indispensable tool for scouting, screening the army's movements, and harassing the enemy's supply lines until military aircraft supplanted them in this role in the early stages of World War I.

In early 1962, a group of Soviet military and missile construction specialists accompanied an agricultural delegation to Havana.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

From an early stage, the rebels received decisive financial and military support from the United States government, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).