Chinese Poetry - Ming-Qing Transition

Ming-Qing Transition

Ming-Qing Transition includes the interluding/overlapping periods of the brief so-called Shun Dynasty (also known as Dashun, 1644–1645) and the Southern Ming Dynasty (1644 to 1662). One example of poets who wrote during the difficult times of the late Ming, when the already troubled nation was ruled by Chongzhen Emperor (reigned 1627 to 1644), the short-lived Dashun regime of peasant-rebel Li Zicheng, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty are the so-called Three Masters of Jiangdong: Wu Weiye (1609–1671), Qian Qianyi (1582–1664), and Gong Dingzi (1615–1673).