Qing Dynasty

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…

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…

nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, many elites, new intellectuals and reform-minded Chinese had realized that the existing political and social systems which lasted for more than thousands years should be changed immediately, or the Qing Empire would collapse quickly. The actual ruler of the Empire, Empress Dowager Cixi, who oppressed the Reform of 1898, recognized the urgent needs for reform as she felt gradually losing control, respects and confidence over both domestic and…

which became a success, was the advancement of women’s rights. The goal of this paper is to explore the effects that the Taiping rebellion had on women 's rights in the mid to late nineteenth century. In the early nineteenth century, women of the Qing dynasty were considered property of the male and played a small role in society. It became standard practice for women to bind their feet with the hopes of marrying well. It was common for these same women to spend their days locked inside their…

Garden, mostly Qing Xianfeng ten years (1860) reconstruction of Humble Administrator's Garden became the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom zhongwangfu garden, to…

Millions of people have migrated to the United States in search of a better life. Until the middle of the 19th century, most of them came from England, Ireland and Germany.23 The “melting pot” metaphor was used to describe the heterogeneous society of immigrants with different cultures becoming more homogeneous through blending together all the races.20 Chinese immigrants joined this mass migration to America in three waves, beginning in the 1840s and extending to the present era. During these…

There were many examples in Chinese history. Many of these movements and rebellions were geared to overthrowing the current government, the Qing dynasty. During the 1850s to 1860s, the Taiping Rebellion was formed by a prophet who sought to destroy the government as well as Confucian values and beliefs. In 1853, Taiping forces were able to capture large amounts of territory and created their own…

Westerners sought to control vast territories though the new imperialism by using their advanced technology to force nations and colonies to give control over to them. Before the 1800s europe had little control over china, india or africa but after the industrial revolution they gained so much influence they brought much of the world under their control. This matter because one of the reasons for the expansions was social darwinism. This Lead westerners to see themselves as superior and rob…

China existed in a state of political, social, and economic unrest at the dawn of the twentieth century. The Qing Dynasty, which had ruled for nearly three centuries, was almost incapable of exerting political control over China in the midst of Western aggression in the country. Foreign businessmen and merchants had been exporting wealth out of China for decades by 1900, and China was powerless to stop the unequal trading. Western military power, far more advanced than the Chinese military,…

Buddhism and Christianity in China Buddhism and Christianity, both originally foreign to China, rose to prominence in their own right during times of change in Chinese history. While Buddhism established a close bond to Chinese culture during the Tang Dynasty, Christianity was unable to co-inhabit as a main religion due to several factors after its initial success in the 1600s. The efforts of these vastly different religions to seamlessly assimilate into a Chinese lifestyle can be compared and…