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The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

In the following century, the Manchus attacked Korea several times between 1627 and 1636.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The next rulers of China were the Manchus.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“So many questions. For instance, you wear the queue. I’ve read that it is a badge of slavery imposed by conquest by the Manchus on the Southern Chinese.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck