page_title: Taiyuan
section_title: Qing dynasty
hierarchical_section_title: Taiyuan / History / Qing dynasty
caption_attribution_description: English: Taiyuan Cathedral 中文: 太原圣母无染原罪天主堂
context_page_description: Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the main manufacturing bases of China. Throughout its long history, Taiyuan was the capital or provisional capital of many dynasties in China, hence the name Lóngchéng.
  Taiyuan is located roughly in the centre of Shanxi, with the Fen River flowing through the central city.
context_section_description: In 1644, Shunzhi founded the Qing dynasty and defeated the Great Shun Army in Taiyuan in the same year.
  Throughout the Qing dynasty, the international trade with Russia, especially of tea, and the creation and development of so-called draft banks, or Piaohao, boosted the central Shanxi basin to become the financial center of Qing China. Even though most of these Piaohao were based in different neighboring counties of Qi County, Taigu, and Yuci, Taiyuan became a significant trading center, due to its political and economical status in Shanxi.
  In 1900, the Taiyuan Massacre occurred, during which a number of Western missionaries were killed.
caption: Taiyuan Cathedral, photographed by Edouard Chavannes in 1907
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