Tristan G. Brown traces the Qing dynasty's rise through the reign of the Qianlong emperor, part of MIT's course 21H.151 Dynastic China. The lecture centers on Taiwan's incorporation into the Qing state, examining how the island moved from a peripheral outpost to an administered territory as Qing power consolidated across the eighteenth century. Brown situates this expansion within the broader Qing project of governing a multiethnic empire, touching on the administrative and military mechanisms used to extend control over new frontiers. The seventy three minute session builds on earlier lectures in the series and assumes some familiarity with Qing institutional history, but Brown keeps the argument anchored in specific events and policies rather than abstraction. As with the rest of the course, the lecture rewards viewers interested in how a continental empire absorbed and administered distant, ethnically distinct territories like Taiwan.