Word: manchu
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...Miao are among China's aboriginal tribes, have resisted admixture for thousands of years although they were nominally "conquered" by the Han Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people...
...Christ, Mary and the saints with Mongoloid features. Though priests do not teach that Christ was Chinese, the Sinofication of icons has the Church's official blessing. (Not approved: a painting of the Madonna and Child which alarmed many Chinese because Mary looked too much like the late Manchu Dowager Empress...
...world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages, "eliminated" those on Tai Li's blacklist, and built up the core of an effective guerrilla army...
...made at the request of General MacArthur. His duties as a member of the commission, however, have not as yet been clearly defined. At the time of his sailing, he had not been told exactly what art objects the commission will attempt to recover, although documentary records of the Manchu dynasty which have been missing from Mukden, Manchuria, since the Japanese occupation, are said to be among these...
...death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...