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1647 in China
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Events from the year 1647 in China.
Incumbents
Qing dynasty - Shunzhi Emperor
Co-regent: Dorgon
Co-regent: Jirgalang
Southern Ming pretender - Yongli Emperor (Zhu Youlang)
Xi dynasty - Zhang Xianzhong
Events
Transition from Ming to Qing
20 January 1647, a small Qing force led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong (李成東) captures Guangzhou, kills the Shaowu Emperor and sends the Yongli Emperor fleeing to Nanning in Guangxi.Wakeman 1985 738
Deaths
Zhang Xianzhong - killed in Shaanxi by Qing forces
Gao Guiying - female anti-Qing military leader
References
Further reading
Wakeman Frederic Jr. Frederic Wakeman The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China 1985 University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA 978-0-520-04804-1.
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