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china qing dynasty
Under his rule, Jurchen ruling families officially intermarried with Mongol ruling families, subjugated the Mongols, and absorbed their troops. This was similar to the way Genghis Khan incorporated rival tribes and countries into his own tribe in the beginning of his rule. -
qing dynasty 1
Also called the First Anglo-Chinese War. British victory opium war Casualties: 69 British troops, approximately 18,000 Chinese soldiers. Results: Britain gets trade rights, access to five treaty ports, and Hong Kong.
opium war 2 Second Opium War: October 23, 1856 - October 18, 1860. Also known as the Arrow War or the Second Anglo-Chinese War, although France joined in. Anglo-French victoryCasualties: Western powers, approximately 2,900 killed or wounded. China, 12,000 - 30,000 killed or wou -
qing dynasty
Before the Qing Empire, the Ming Empire lasted about 270 years and then collapsed mainly from within as rival groups carved up sections of the empire for themselves and fought for supremacy. Natural disasters, famine and economic chaos convinced many people that the Ming had lost the Mandate of Heaven. This encouraged people to rebel and encouraged the Mongols and Jurchens to attack. -
dynasty and confucianism
Confucius was born in the state of Lu, which was in eastern China, with a section of coast along the Yellow Sea. Although the Master was honored as a sage in his own time, and a shrine built for him upon his death, the religion based around him died out at the end of the Chou Dynasty. During the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor persecuted Confucian scholars. Confucianism survived, however, and revived in about 195 B.C. in the Han Dynasty. -
First Opium War
First Opium War: March 18, 1839 - August 29, 1842.
Also called the First Anglo-Chinese War.
British victory
Casualties: 69 British troops, approximately 18,000 Chinese soldiers.
Results: Britain gets trade rights, access to five treaty ports, and Hong Kong. -
qing dynasty
Qing dynasty
The dynasty was founded by the Jurchen Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming vassal, began organizing Jurchen clans into "Banners", military-social units. Nurhaci formed these clans into a unified entity, the subjects of which became known collectively as the Manchu people. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of Liaodong and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. In 1644, peasant rebels led by Li Zicheng conquered t -
second opium war
Second Opium War: October 23, 1856 - October 18, 1860.
Also known as the Arrow War or the Second Anglo-Chinese War, although France joined in.
Anglo-French victoryCasualties: Western powers, approximately 2,900 killed or wounded. China, 12,000 - 30,000 killed or wounded.
Results: Britain gets southern Kowloon. Western powers get extraterritorial rights, trade privileges. China's Summer Palaces looted and burned. -
war load era
War load era The era lasted from the death of Yuan Shikai in 1916 until 1928 (with the conclusion of the Northern Expedition with the Northeast Flag Replacement, the beginning of the "Nanjing decade"). However, when old warlords, such as Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang, were deposed, new minor warlords persisted into the 1930s and 1940s, as the central government struggled to keep its allies under rein, a great problem for the Kuomintang (KMT) through World War II and after during the Chinese Civil W -
the long march
The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. The best known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934. The First Front Army of the Chinese So -
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british came yo china
2 British came to china
Winfried Baumgart devotes this study to defining the idea of European Imperialism. He split this broad concept into three separate and more manageable subcategories. First, he explains the political atmosphere of mid-ninteenth century Europe. He qualifies various preconditions that made eastern expansion possible. He highlights the significance of early trading port, naval developments, missionary activities, exploration, and technological advancements. Second he approa -
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population pressure
Population pressure
he sum of the factors (as increase in numbers or excessive food consumption) within a population that reduce the ability of an environment to support the population and that therefore tend to result in migration and expansion of range or in extinction or decline of the population -
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boxer rebellion
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”). The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable. It was thought to be an offshoot of the Eight Trigrams Society (Baguajiao), which had fomented rebellions against the Qing dynasty in the late 18th and -
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wuchang uprising
The Wuchang Uprising was the Chinese uprising that served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution, ending the Qing Dynasty -- and two millennia of imperial rule -- and ushering in the Republic of China (ROC). It began with the dissatisfaction of the handling of a railway crisis. The crisis then escalated to an uprising where the revolutionaries went up against Qing government officials. The uprising was then assisted by the New Army in a coup against their own authorities in the city of Wuchang -
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fall of qing
Fall of Qing The collapse of China's Qing Dynasty was a long process. Qing rule gradually collapsed during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, due to a complex interplay between -
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sun yat sen
Sun yatsen
was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China, and medical practitioner. As the foremost pioneer of the Republic of China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Double Ten Revolution. He was appointed to serve -
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start of republic china
start of republic china
governed the present-day territories of China, Mongolia and Taiwan at differing times between 1912 and 1949. As an era of Chinese history, the Republic of China's rule on mainland China was preceded by the last imperial dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty and its end was marked after the Nationalists lost the Chinese Civil War against the Communist Party of China (CPC), when the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan while the CPC proclaimed the People's Republic of China on mai -
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Jiang jeishi take control of the kmt
Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's nominal leader.[3] He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. Ch -
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communist nationist take control to taiwan
The Nationalists had an advantage in both troops and weapons, controlled a much larger territory and population, and enjoyed world support. The communists were well established in the north and northwest. During the war they had built up networks of local governments and village party leaders who appealed to patriotism rather than class struggle. The best trained Nationalist troops had been lost in early battles against the better equipped Japanese army and in Burma, while the communists had suf -
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mae tsu tong die
Mao tsu teng die
Peking, Sept. 9--Mao Tse-tung, the pre-eminent figure of the Chinese Communist revolution and the leader of his country since 1949, died today at the age of 82.
His death, at 12:10 A.M. after a long illness, left uncertain the question of who was to succeed him. There is no designated heir, nor is there anyone among his subordinates who commands the awe and reverence with which he was regarded among the 800 million Chinese.