The two remaining (the other is also 86) sometimes chat to each other in Manchu.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
The Manchu emperor abdicated in February 1912, ending over 2, 000 years of dynastic rule.
In Sanjiazi, descendants of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2m out of 10m Qing documents in the country's collection are written in Manchu.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
Sherepita was a burly man in his thirties with a shaved head and tattoos, a goatee and a Fu Manchu mustache.
The far bank was ruled by a more powerful prince, a Manchu, whose army had firearms and who drank from gold cups.
About six years ago Sanjiazi set up the country's first Manchu school.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
The Xibo language is very close to Manchu, but Mr Wu says only about 20, 000 speak it and their numbers are rapidly diminishing too.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
But Bervy, a tall 46-year-old with a dark Fu Manchu mustache, has lots of cash from selling his real estate business back East in 2005.
But in some remote rural areas Manchu ways held out longer.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
The Manchu teachers, she says, do not understand her Manchu.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
Ms Zhao grew up speaking Manchu.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
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