Fall of the Qing Dynasty

From Taiping Rebellion to Fall of Qing Dynasty (1850-1911). Fall of Qing and Boxer a bit rushed. For my students in high school Chinese History. Information mostly from Rhoads Murphey's _A History of Asia_, Ist Edition (1992).

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Education

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• Qing Dynasty
• Taiping Rebellion
• Second Opium War
• China
• Chinese History

[billybussey]

Hong Xiuquan failed the exams for 9 years.

[959chris]

@ComradeMing when i said white i literally meant skin colour as i'm sure you did in your original comment i was not referring to aryan

[959chris]

@ComradeMing you do realise that romans and greeks were genetically white, and at any rate no need for the racism all continents have unwashed barbarians.

[tokyomilmil]

@arescraft

Many old colonies didn't lack the talents to become strong, it's the general lack of visions among its people and its rulers who prefer out-dated way of life. Take old Chinese for example, they were so tied up with the old Confucius teaching they'd rather give up excellent chances for new economic sources but let European catch up and dominate them. No doubt it was wrong for Europe to exploit other nations, but if countries like China embrace technology faster Europe'd back up!

[tokyomilmil]

@arescraft

If you read my message again, you'd see there's no part attempting to degrade what old Chinese have done. They've invented many wonderful things such as paper and compass. Still, the massive conservative population of China and their emperor lack the vision to make ZhengHe's wonderful vision into reality. Instead, the emperor burned all the ships after Zheng died.

[Eagletine]

It was about time that the qing dynasty collapsed. Under the Manchurian Aisin Giorio clan's tyrannical rule, China became backward and weak. However, thanks to Mr Sun Yet San, China was freed from their oppression.

[arescraft]

@tokyomilmil

Take ZhengHe the Chinese Muslim explorer sea admiral from Ming Dynasty. almost a century before Columbus, he lead 7 voyages with a total of 300 ships, 27,000 soldiers to trade. He went as far as east Africa but never attempted to conquer or convert another weaker nation. FACE it, Europeans were assholes back in the days. The Chinese were better.

[tokyomilmil]

@arescraft

I think you've got the wrong idea. It's well-known that late Manchu government was a decadent one. The lecturer simply pointed this out, nothing to be involved with the ancient Chinese. BTW, "Winners take it all" is human nature, I don't mean it's decent deeds, but the same thing would happen replacing Imperial West with any race or country. FACE THE TRUTH: many of the old colonist nations haven't done any good before/after been occupied. But some others revived.

[IncognitoObserver]

10:33 Wow I've been there! Didn't know its history though.

[banlin1958]

what is interesting is that Xtianity expanded greatly and nearly topple the Qing, unfortunately one would have expected Xtian Europe would have allied with the Xtian Taiping but instead they help the Qing to defeat the Taiping after the Xtian Taiping rebllion was put down other rebel groups such as the boxers carry out anti Xtian and Western policies supported by the Qing.