《中国故事》（第五集）TheStryofChina（5TheQingDynasty.docx

视频字幕TheStoryof China（5）The Qing DynastyI. Script In 1644, Ming Dynasty China, the great civilization in the world, went through a devasting foreign conquest. The Chinese people were left haunted by dreams of lost peace and visions of war. The invaders were Manchus from the north, people the saw as barbarians. The Ming Emperor committed suicide and the Manchu armies swept south. When the city of Yangzhou resisted, it was plundered and burned in a ten-day resign of terror. 300,000 people died. Afterwards, the westlake in Hangzhou, once China ‘s paradise on earth. As he sailed along the shore, he was shocked by the aftermath of the fighting. I thought I was in a nightmare, he said. The loss seemed irretrievable, but China had been through such cataclysms before and would go through them again. And being a great and ancient civilization, the people had the inner resources to rebuild. And that ‘s what happened next.The Manchus were foreigners, non-Chinese, but it was they who would institute the next rebuilding and becoming Chinese in the process. And they were the last imperial dynasty of China, the Qing.So, China’s last empire was forge in war. The Manchu conquest took 30 years. It climaxed in the 1670s in a savage struggle in the south, when three great provinces rose against the Manchus and their teenage emperor, the Qing government had half a million troops, fighting in these wild mountains of the southwest. At that moment, China could have fallen apart, but it didn’t. The war was the making of Kangxi and when it ended in 1681, he was 27 and he would become the longest ruling, and some would say, the greatest of all the Chinese emperors.For all its glories, the Ming had ended as a decadent,broken empire. Now, the foreign Manchus set out to make sure that the mistakes. They had made were not repeated. That the new rulers of China should be men with a sober sense of public duty, and Kangxi, the upright one. Kangxi was the first of three great Qing emperors-father, son