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Qing was orthodox imperial Chinese dynasty, through the Mandate of Heaven.
90 percent of Qing armies were Han Chinese military forces.
The Qing founder Manchu tribes were former Ming dynasty Chinese subjects, having served under the Han Chinese imperial army for generations before rebelling. Manchuria was under Ming China rule. The vast majority of the Qing Eight Banner military were made up of Han Chinese Banner warriors. The Ming dynasty collapsed from a Han Chinese civil war, not conquered by the Qing. And the Qing succeeded the Ming as the next ruling imperial Chinese dynasty, governed under Zhonghua Han Chinese imperial statecraft, institutions, and governmental political system.
The Qing Chinese government and military throughout its 268-year reign were filled with overwhelming majority Han Chinese officials, generals, and soldiers.
Territorial expansion into Tibet and Xinjiang relied heavily on the vast majority of Han Chinese military forces' participation. During Qing China, Tibet was recaptured by Han Chinese general Yue Zhongqi with predominantly Han Chinese military forces; likewise, Xinjiang was recaptured by Han Chinese general Zuo Zongtang with overwhelming Han Chinese military forces. Taiwan was conquered by Han Chinese Admiral Shi Lang, with an army and navy made up of overwhelmingly Han Chinese military forces.
The Qing dynasty ruled its entire realm, including Tibet, Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, and Taiwan, as a unified Zhongguo China polity and imperial Chinese state. When signing international treaties with foreign nations, Qing explicitly identified itself as Zhongguo China, and with the United States of America, it identified itself as the Chinese Great Qing State and, in Chinese Hanzi, Zhonghua Da Qing Guo, to describe its entire realm. Many Qing China emperors were of partial Han ancestry from Kangxi onward; Kangxi's mother was from a Han Chinese Banner family. The last Qing China emperor became an ordinary Chinese citizen. The Qing dynasty was the last imperial Chinese empire, succeeded by the Republic of China in 1912. Manchus are Chinese minority ethnic group, heavily Hanified and Sinicized.
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