1647 in China

Events from the year 1647 in China.

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Incumbents

• Qing dynasty - Shunzhi Emperor
  • Co-regent: Dorgon
  • Co-regent: Jirgalang
• Southern Ming pretender - Yongli Emperor (Zhu Youlang)
• Xi dynasty - Zhang Xianzhong

Events

• Transition from Ming to Qing
  • 20 January 1647, a small Qing force led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong (李成東) captures Guangzhou, kills the Shaowu Emperor and sends the Yongli Emperor fleeing to Nanning in Guangxi.

Deaths

• Zhang Xianzhong - killed in Shaanxi by Qing forces
• Gao Guiying - female anti-Qing military leader

References

• Wakeman, Frederic Jr. (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-04804-1.