Qianlong Emperor
Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)
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He ruled longer than nearly any monarch in history — sixty years on the throne, then three more as the power behind it — and presided over the Qing dynasty at its absolute peak, when China held the world's largest population and economy. He also ordered genocide, burned thousands of books, and set in motion the corruption that would unravel the empire.
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The fourth son of the Yongzheng Emperor and his favourite, Hongli took the throne in 1735 with ambitions that matched the empire's reach. He launched campaigns deep into Inner Asia, Burma, Nepal, Vietnam, suppressing rebellions in Jinchuan and Taiwan, but the signature conquest was Xinjiang — taken from the Dzungar Khanate in a campaign that became genocide. At home he styled himself a patron of high culture, sponsoring the Siku Quanshu, the largest compilation of Chinese history ever assembled, while simultaneously running literary inquisitions that suppressed over 3,100 works. In 1796 he abd…
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