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High Qing
Extracted from the Wikipedia article High Qing era.
Characteristics of the High Qing
The three Emperors of the High Qing combined the strengths of their Manchu culture in addition to a level of Sinicization of the conquered cultures, to combine assimilation and the retaining of their own cultural identity. The Kangxi Emperor initiated the High Qing period. As an emperor, he elevated the empire through his passion for education in combination with his military expertise, and his restructuring of the bureaucracy into that of a cosmopolitan one. Under Kangxi, China also compiled expansive works of literature, encyclopedias, and dictionaries such as the Kangxi Dictionary, the Complete Tang Poems, and the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.