1680 in China

Events from the year 1680 in China.

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Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (19th year)

Events

• The Revolt of the Three Feudatories continues.
  • Sichuan and southern Shaanxi were retaken by the Han Chinese Green Standard Army under Wang Jinbao and Zhao Liangdong in 1680,^[1] with Manchu forces involved only in dealing with logistics and provisions, not combat.^[2][3]
  • the provinces of Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, were also recovered by the Qing
  • Wu Shifan retreated to Kunming in October
  • Shang Zhixin was forced to commit suicide in 1680; of his thirty six brothers four were executed when he committed suicide while the rest of his family was allowed to live^[4]
  • Zheng Jing's forces were defeated near Xiamen in 1680 and forced to withdraw to Taiwan.^[5]
• The Dzungar conquest of Altishahr resulted in the Tibetan Buddhist Dzungar Khanate in Dzungaria conquering and subjugating the Genghisid-ruled Chagatai Khanate in Altishahr (the Tarim Basin). It put a final end to the independence of the Chagatai Khanate^[6]
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

Deaths

• Fu Honglie (傅弘烈; died AD 1680) was a native of Jiangxi, who gave his allegiance to the Manchus in 1657 and was employed as a Prefect, executed by Wu Shifan
• July 24 — Candida Xu (1607–1680) a Chinese Catholic. She has been called "arguably the most influential Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century."^[7]
• Shang Zhixin, (1636–1680) a major figure in the early Qing Dynasty, known for his role in the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. He was Prince of Pingnan (平南王, "Prince who Pacifies the South"), inheriting his position from his father, the surrendered Ming Dynasty general Shang Kexi
• Wang Shimin (王時敏; 1592–1680) was a Chinese landscape painter during the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)^[8]
• Zhou Youde (周有德); courtesy name Yichu (彝初; Yíchú),^[9] was a Chinese official active in the early Qing dynasty as governor of various provinces
• Li Yu, (李漁; Lǐ Yú; 1610–1680 AD), also known as Li Liweng, was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher

References

1. Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies Nicola Di Cosmo; Nicola Di Cosmo (24 January 2007). The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: "My Service in the Army", by Dzengseo. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-135-78955-8.
2. David Andrew Graff; Robin Higham (2012). A Military History of China. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–122. ISBN 978-0-8131-3584-7.
3. Nicola Di Cosmo (2006). The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China. p. 17.
4. Eric Tagliacozzo; Helen F. Siu; Peter C. Perdue (5 January 2015). Asia Inside Out: Changing Times. Harvard University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-674-59850-8.
5. Xing Hang (5 January 2016). Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720. Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-316-45384-1.
6. Millward, James A. (2007). Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (illustrated ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13924-3. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
7. King, Gail (26 August 1998). "Candida Xu and the Growth of Christianity in China in the Seventeenth Century". Monumenta Serica. 46: 49–66. doi:10.1080/02549948.1998.11731309. JSTOR 40727172.
8. "Wang Shih-min work at National Palace Museum, Taipei". Retrieved 2008-07-07.
9. Zhou 2009, p. 151.

• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0-521-24334-3
• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Zhou, Shujia (February 2009). 香港諸神——起源、廟宇與崇拜 [Deities in Hong Kong] (in Chinese). China Bookstore Publishing (Hong Kong). ISBN 978-9628931101.