# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shunzhi-emperor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:29:03.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shunzhi-emperor"
name: "Shunzhi Emperor"
slug: "shunzhi-emperor"
description: "The first emperor to sit on the throne in Beijing for a dynasty that wasn't Chinese. A five-year-old enthroned while Manchu princes took China, then dead of smallpox at twenty-two before he could finish the job himself."
tagline: "Qing Dynasty emperor of China (1638–1661)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%B8%85_%E4%BD%9A%E5%90%8D_%E3%80%8A%E6%B8%85%E4%B8%96%E7%A5%96%E9%A1%BA%E6%B2%BB%E7%9A%87%E5%B8%9D%E6%9C%9D%E6%9C%8D%E5%83%8F%E3%80%8B.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1638-03-15"
deathDate: "1661-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.97
  momentum:             1.212981957813897
  historical:           23.534824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Historical Figure"
    slug: "historical-figure"
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    slug: "royalty"
  - name: "Painting"
    slug: "painting"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
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    title: "Шуньчжы"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шунджъ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཤུན་ཙི། (གོང་མ།)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shunzhi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sun-cse kínai császár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shunzhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kaisar Shunzhi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  When his father Hong Taiji died in 1643, a council of Manchu princes selected five-year-old Fulin as the second Qing emperor and installed two regents to hold power. In November 1644, he was enthroned in Beijing as the first Qing ruler over China proper. For seven years, the prince regent Dorgon ran the conquest — chasing down the fallen Ming dynasty's loyalists, pushing them into the southwest, enforcing the hated "hair cutting command" of 1645 that forced Chinese men to shave their foreheads and braid queues like Manchus. After Dorgon died on the last day of 1650, the young Shunzhi began ruling in his own right, trying to curb corruption and clip the Manchu nobility's wings with uneven results. By 1661 his armies had crushed the last Ming resistance under Koxinga and the Prince of Gui, but that February smallpox killed him at twenty-two. His third son became the Kangxi Emperor and reigned sixty years; the father's reign remains the least-documented stretch of Qing history.