Editing Historical revisionism (section)

=== New Qing history ===
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Historians in China and from abroad long wrote that the [[Manchu]]s who conquered China and established the [[Qing dynasty]] (1636–1912) adopted the customs and institutions of the [[Han Chinese]] dynasties that preceded them and were "sinicized", that is, absorbed into Chinese culture. In 1990 American historians explored Manchu language sources and newly accessible imperial archives, and discovered that the emperors retained their Manchu culture and that they regarded [[China proper]] as only one part of their larger empire. These scholars differ among themselves but agree on a major revision of the history of the Qing dynasty.<ref>{{cite journal |last =Waley-Cohen |first = Johanna |author-link = Joanna Waley-Cohen|title =The New Qing History |journal =Radical History Review |volume =88 |issue = 1 |pages =193–206 |date =2004 |doi = 10.1215/01636545-2004-88-193|s2cid = 144544216 }}</ref>