Qianlong Emperor

Podcast Critique: The China History Podcast: “The Opium War” Laszlo Montgomery’s podcast, The China History Podcast: “The Opium War” discusses the background, causes and effects of the First Opium War, which lasted from 1839 to 1842 and ended with the first of the “unequal treaties”, the Treaty of Nanjing, which forced China to cede Hong Kong and several harbors to the British Empire. The podcast has one speaker and is primarily informational with an informal tone. One event that Montgomery…

a prominent civilization that governed itself to being subject to western power. A complete 180-degree flip in less than 100 years. Throughout the 1700s, the Chinese Imperial System was led by the Qing Empire under the rule of Emperor Yongzheng and his son Qianlong Emperor. Within the 73 years that the two of them led China, the country saw the most prosperous…

The most vital instrument of national power in the West’s interactions with the world is military might, because without the coercive efforts of their militaries none of their diplomatic polices and ideas could have effectively impacted foreign nations. Over the centuries, the one constant fact that if a nation had the desire to conquer or rule another, it needed a strong military whether that would be to coercive or protect its interests. The most ideal case of a country using its military…

Colonialism was a policy of creation and maintenance of a form of colonial people in a territory to other territory. The history of colonialism is a major content in the evolutionary history of humankind. Colonialism is often used to refer to a period of history from the 15th century until the 19th century when Europeans built their colonies. One of the continents that got affected by the colonialism was Asia. Three representatives for this continent that went through colonial experience were…