Rulers of this empire took on a “culturally null” universalism per Pamela Crossley, a revisionist of the “new” school based on its First Historical Archives. “Evidential” philologists blamed excessive introspection for the rule of this empire, which was decried by the “national essence” school. A dead poet who inspired a failed coup against this empire was mutilated in a literary inquisition recounted in Treason by the Book by Jonathan D. Spence. The Elder Brothers’ Society opposed this empire, whose homeland was settled in a “crashing” that breached the Willow Palisade. A paradigmatic traitor opened a pass’s gates to this empire’s regent Dorgon in 1644. This empire was resisted by loyalists of Tungning’s House of Koxinga in the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. For 10 points, White Lotus rebels cut their queues to defy what empire ruled by Manchus? ■END■
ANSWER: Qīng Empire [or Qīng dynasty, Great Qīng, Dà Qīng, or Dulimbai Gurun; prompt on China or Zhōngguó; prompt on Manchus, Jurchens, Mǎnzú, Man-tsu, manju, yírén, yídí, tulergi aiman, or “Outer Tribes” until “Manchus” is read] (Clues include “new Qīng history,” kǎozhèng and guócuì, Zéng Jìng and Lǚ Liúliáng, the Gēlǎohuì, Hàn settlement of Manchuria in the Chuǎng Guāndōng, and Wú Sānguì and the Battle of Shānhǎi Pass.)
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