Youth and accession to the throne edit
Mother edit
Court relations edit
Becoming emperor edit
Wars and territorial expansion edit
The Dzungar campaigns edit
Other border campaigns edit
Bureaucratization of the frontiers edit
Later years edit
Heshen and the problem of corruption edit
The Macartney embassy edit
Increasing social unrest edit
Abdication edit
Ethnic policies edit
Preserving "Manchu-ness" edit
The problem of loyalty edit
Multiple styles of rule edit
Political trends edit
Managing the bureaucracy edit
Fiscal policies edit
The political elite edit
Qianlong and scholars edit
Early cultural projects edit
History of Ming (completed in 1739), Yizong jinjian 醫宗金鑑 (completed in 1742), Wuti Qingwen jian 五體清文鑒 (completed in 1766).