| Great Qing 大清 ᡩᠠᡳ᠌ᠴᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ གྲེཨཏ་ཆིང | |
|---|---|
| 1636–1912 | |
 Flag (1889–1912)
 Coat of arms
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 The Qing Dynasty in 1820 C.E. | |
| Capital and largest city | Beijing |
| Common languages | Mandarin, Mongolian, Manchu, Tibetan |
| Dominant mode of production | Feudalism |
| Government | Absolute monarchy (1636-1911) Constitutional monarchy (1911-1912) |
| History | |
• Established | 1636 |
• Dissolution | 1912 |
| Area | |
• Total | 14,700,000 km² |
| Population | |
• 1912 estimate | 432,000,000 |
The Qing dynasty was the last dynasty to control China. It was established in 1636 by Hong Taiji, an ethnic Manchu[1], as a successor to the Later Jin dynasty. While initially isolated to Manchuria (Northeastern China), the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644 allowed the Qing to spread all throughout China and beyond. It stayed in power until the Xinhai Revolution of 1912, a bourgeois revolution which would lead to the creation of the Republic of China.
The dynasty suffered from the imperialism of Japan and Europe and lost Hong Kong to Britain after the First Opium War in 1839.[2] In 1895, the Qing dynasty lost control over Taiwan and Korea in the First Sino-Japanese War when they were taken over by Japan.[3] The Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century attempted to reestablish China's sovereignty but was crushed by a Western military alliance which included the United States, Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, and others.[4]
References
- ↑ Evelyn S. Rawski (1991). Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society: 'Ch'ing Imperial Marriage and Problems of Rulership' (p. 177). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520069305
- ↑ China; political, commercial, and social; an official report (1847) (p. 84). London: James Madden.
- ↑ Jinwung Kim (2012). A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict (p. 304). New York City: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253000248
- ↑ Razmy Baroud (2022-11-28). "Xi vs Trudeau: How China Is Rewriting History with the Colonial West" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-11-28. Retrieved 2022-11-29.