On the Trail of the Yellow TigerThe Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in Chinas long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong (160547), a peasant rebel known as the Yellow Tiger. Zhangs systematic reign of terror allegedly resulted in the deaths of at least one sixth of the