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180: 451: 341:. The Deliberative Council of Ministers was Dorgon's main policymaking body during his regency. Soon after moving to Beijing, he gave the Council control over both military and civil affairs, and expanded its membership to all lieutenant-generals and deputy lieutenant-generals in the Manchu and Mongol Banners, as well as to all Mongols and Manchus who held posts of Grand Secretary or Board president. Far from limiting Dorgon's power, the Council served as his tool to denounce and arraign other princes who challenged his authority. In May 1644, for instance, he had Hong Taiji's son 303: 389:) were also appointed to the Council at that time. In 1656, the emperor issued an edict abolishing the automatic appointment to the Council of Manchu and Mongol Grand Secretaries, yet by the end of his reign in 1661, the Council still counted more than fifty members. During the Shunzhi reign, the Council was often convened to investigate important officials who had been accused of corruption or malfeasance. 245:) and assisted the princes in discussing policy. Franz Michael, however, claims that they were mere "technical advisors", a point of view supported by Silas Wu. In 1623, "eight high officials" were also made deliberative officials, but their functions were chiefly censorial and their primary role was to let Nurhaci know of conspiracies among the princes. 294:) each, who were put in charge of managing the Eight Manchu Banners. By limiting Council membership to Manchu military leaders from outside the imperial clan, Hung Taiji enhanced his personal power at the expense of the other princes. Nonetheless the Council remained a bastion of "collective aristocratic rule" within the Qing government. 479:
military matters, but he also worked to undermine its power. To bypass the Council, he created smaller parallel bodies which he found more reliable and less entrenched. Slowly, he transferred deliberative powers to these more trusted ministers. Around 1730, these informal institutions crystallized into the
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directly on important matters of state. After Dorgon's supporters had been purged from the court (by March 1651), his former co-regent Jirgalang made a number of special appointments to the Council to foster loyalty among the Manchu elite. Between 1651 and 1653, he added thirty new members who lacked
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against one another. Many Manchu nobles who had sided with the Yongzheng Emperor's rivals during the succession struggle were still members of the Deliberative Council. To avoid alienating these grandees, the Yongzheng Emperor still made new appointments to the Council and consulted it on various
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reverted many of the bureaucratic reforms of the Oboi faction after 1669, but continued to rely on the Deliberative Council as a body of Manchu counselors whom he consulted on a wide variety of military and civil matters, especially those that were too sensitive or complex to handle through the
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led by Oboi, who took care of state affairs during the minority of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722). Under the Oboi regency (1661–1669), the Deliberative Council became "the most prominent Manchu institution." While keeping their own seats on the Council, the regents limited membership to
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had been suppressed and peace reestablished, he decided that the lieutenant-generals of the Banners would no longer be automatic members. After that, the Deliberative Council became more oriented toward civil administration. Nonetheless during the
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origin of the Deliberative Council, which then became Hong Taiji's main policymaking structure and was consulted on foreign and military matters. In 1637, one year after he had declared himself
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After serving as the most influential policymaking body of the dynasty for more than a century, the Deliberative Council was displaced and then made obsolete by the more ethnically mixed
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lieutenant-generals of the Manchu and Mongol Banners and to Manchu and Mongol presidents of the Six Ministries. They also decided to grant membership to the president of the
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has called the origin of the Council "a complicated and often confusing process." The Council originated in informal institutions created by
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behavior and made Hooge's enemies testify against him in front of the Council. He used the same method to purge Hooge for good in 1648.
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After Dorgon's death on the last day of 1650, the Shunzhi Emperor started his personal rule: he ordered the members of the Council to
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among his sons. In 1601, Nurhaci had organized Manchu society into four "Banners" that were doubled in number in 1615 to become the
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After the stabilization of the Grand Council in the 1730s, the influence of the Deliberative Council quickly declined. During the
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official positions in the Banners or the metropolitan bureaucracy. Two of the new appointees were Chinese Bannermen
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The Origin of Manchu Rule in China: Frontier and Bureaucracy as Interacting Forces in the Chinese Empire
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Communication and Imperial Control in China: Evolution of the Palace Memorial System, 1693–1735
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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
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institution served as the chief source of advice on military matters for Hong Taiji and the
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used the Deliberative Council as his main policymaking tool from 1661 to 1669 during his
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Another precursor to the Council was a group of "five high officials" and "ten judges" (
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served as the empire's main policymaking body for the rest of the Qing dynasty.
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Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723–1820
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Ruling from Horseback: Manchu Politics in the Oboi Regency, 1661–1669
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The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions
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to sit on the Council, then in 1683, after the rebellion of the
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regular bureaucracy. The emperor allowed the president of the
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Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet
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and others when Prince Gong was head of the Grand Council.
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When Hong Taiji died in 1643, he was replaced by the young
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K'ang-Hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule, 1661–1684
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China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
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The Shunzhi Emperor (r. 1643–1661) was succeeded by
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Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory
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751: 749: 745: 741: 736: 733: 730:, p. 11. 729: 725: 720: 717: 714:, p. 30. 713: 709: 704: 701: 697: 693: 689: 684: 681: 677: 673: 668: 665: 661: 657: 652: 649: 646:, p. 11. 645: 641: 636: 633: 629: 624: 621: 617: 613: 609: 604: 601: 598:, p. 21. 597: 592: 589: 586:, p. 25. 585: 584:Bartlett 1991 581: 576: 573: 570:, p. 10. 569: 564: 562: 558: 554: 549: 546: 543:, p. 31. 542: 537: 535: 531: 527: 523: 519: 518:Bartlett 1991 515: 510: 507: 501: 499: 497: 493: 488: 486: 485:privy council 482: 481:Grand Council 477: 473: 469: 461: 460:Grand Council 457: 452: 445: 443: 441: 437: 433: 429: 425: 421: 416: 412: 407: 402: 400: 395: 390: 388: 384: 380: 376: 372: 368: 364: 360: 355: 350: 348: 344: 340: 336: 332: 328: 324: 316: 312: 308: 304: 297: 295: 288: 279: 275: 271: 267: 263: 259: 255: 251: 246: 244: 240: 231: 226: 224: 220: 211: 210: 205: 204:Eight Banners 201: 197: 193: 185: 181: 174: 172: 170: 166: 165:Grand Council 161: 159: 155: 151: 147: 143: 139: 135: 131: 127: 124:of the early 123: 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Index

Deliberative Council
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Manchu
Möllendorff
emperors
Qing dynasty
Nurhaci
Hong Taiji
Manchu
aristocratic
Shunzhi
Kangxi
Dorgon
Oboi
Grand Council
Yongzheng Emperor
Full-face painted portrait of a corpulent man with a thin mustachio wearing a red hat and a multi-layered yellow robe with dragon decorations, and sitting on a throne mounted on a low podium.
Hong Taiji
Robert Oxnam
Nurhaci
collegial rule
Eight Banners
beile
Hong Taiji
collegial rule

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