Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
Un-Chinese Activities
By Jonathan Mirsky
Treason by the Book
Jonathan D. Spence
Viking, 300 pp., $24.95
In the first week of November 1728, China's Emperor Yongzheng (who reigned between 1723 and 1735) ruled over something like 200 million people and the vast territory that Beijing today claims as the People's Republic. He had plenty on his mind. He was only the third ruler since 1644, when his non-Chinese forebears, the Manchus, seized Beijing from the Ming dynasty, established the Qing dynasty, and with the collaboration of many Chinese, but by no means all, set about conquering China.
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