Nobuo Kanda
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Emeritus Professor of East Asian History, Meiji University, Tokyo. Author of Rise and Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty.
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Kangxi was the second emperor (reigned 1661β1722) of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644β1911/12). To the Chinese empire he added areas north of the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) and portions of Outer Mongolia, and he extended control over Tibet. He opened four ports to foreign trade and encouraged theβ¦
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