The textbooks opened learning open possibilities for the small number of Chinese students interested in science, and a very small number interested in technology.
The present-day government of China, like the erstwhile imperial dynasties of the Ming and Qing, tolerates popular religious cults if they bolster social stability, but suppresses or persecutes cults and deities which threaten moral order.
The dragon robe to bright yellow, but also available in golden yellow, apricot yellow.
The Qing nonetheless used superior armament and logistics to expand deeply into Central Asia, defeat the Dzungar Mongols in 1759, and complete their conquest of Xinjiang.
Cixi supported the movement secretly, so the leaders supported the Qing Dynasty.
The three Liaodong Han Bannermen officers who played a massive role in the conquest of southern China from the Ming were Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde and they governed southern China autonomously as viceroys for the Qing after their conquests.