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The 1644 historical view is a historiographical narrative popular on Chinese social media platforms asserting that China's so-called "decline" began not with the Opium Wars of the 1840s, as in the Chinese Communist Party's official "century of humiliation" narrative, but with the Manchu conquest of 1644, which ended the ethnically Han Ming dynasty and installed the Qing dynasty. Popularized in late 2025 by a viral video reinterpreting the classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber as a coded lament for the fallen Ming, the view fed into a broader wave of "overturn Qing and restore Ming" sentiment online, including boycotts of Manchu-associated clothing and attacks on ethnically Manchu celebrities, and overlapped with longstanding "Ming fan" and Han nationalist online communities.
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