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The Yangzhou massacre took place in 1645 in Yangzhou, China, during the Qing dynasty. Mass killings of residents in Yangzhou were conducted by Qing troops under the command of Prince Dodo after they conquered the city from forces loyal to the Southern Ming regime of the Hongguang Emperor. The massacre lasted ten days after the city fell on May 20, 1645. Traditionally, the number of victims was reported as close to 800,000, although some modern scholars consider it an exaggeration.〔Struve (1993) (note at p. 269), following a 1964 article by Zhang Defang, notes that the entire city's population at the time was not likely to be more than 300,000, and that of the entire Yangzhou Prefecture, 800,000.〕 The defending commander, Shi Kefa, was also executed by Qing forces after he refused to submit to their authority. The alleged reasons for the massacre were: * To punish the residents because of resistance efforts led by the Ming official Shi Kefa. * To warn the rest of the population in Jiangnan of the consequences of resisting the invaders. The book ''An Account of Ten days at Yangzhou'' by Wang Xiuchu, (English translation and annotation by Lynn A. Struve〔Struve (1993, pages 28-48〕) was a first-person eyewitness account of the massacre. Following are excerpts from Wang Xiuchu's report (in Struve's translation): There were many other massacres.〔(滿清屠殺暴行資料匯總之一 )〕〔(与阎崇年先生论辩：. 怎样看待满清皇朝康乾盛世 )〕 Books written about the massacres in Yangzhou, Jiading and Jiangyin were later republished by anti-Qing authors to win support in the leadup to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.〔朱子素, ''嘉定屠城紀略''〕〔韓菼, ''江陰城守紀''〕 ==See also== *Anti-Qing sentiment 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yangzhou massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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