Overthrowing the Qing: Think the Han Are Finished?

On the nineteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming dynasty fell. Wu Sangui opened Shanhai Pass, allowing the Qing army into the country. The Yangzhou Massacre followed, and the Yongli Emperor died in Kunming. Was the world lost? Did you think the Han people were finished? No, it wasn’t over yet!