Consolidation of Qing Power (1644-1760)

*Three Feudatories

Wu Sangui (Yunnan, Guizhou)

Shang Zhixin (Guangdong)

Geng Jingzhong (Fujian)

*Kangxi, r. 1661-1722

7 years old upon succession

Regent Oboi

General
Pro-Manchu policies

3 Feudatories Crisis

Succession, 1671

Shang Zhixin
Geng Jingzhong

War, 1673-81

Wu founds Zhou Dynasty

Qing victory

Failures of 3 feudatories

No coordiantion
No appeal to Ming loyalists

Kangxi's consolidation

Appeal to social elite

Literary projects

Inspection tours
Granary system
Military expansion

Taiwan (1683)

Zunghar Mongols (1696)

Tibet (1720)