Visiting The Met? Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang Wang Shimin. Landscapes Painted for Yuweng Fan Qi. Landscapes after old masters Wang Hui. Landscapes and trees Gong Xian. Wooded Mountains at Dusk Kuncan. Returning Home Shitao Zhu Ruoji. Landscapes in the styles of old masters Gao Cen. Fish and rocks Bada Shanren Zhu Da. Guan Yu Unidentified artist , ca. Wangchuan Villa Wang Yuanqi. One Hundred Horses Giuseppe Castiglione.
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Wiktionary 0. Freebase 0. Matched Categories Dynasty. How to pronounce Qing Dynasty? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Military confrontation became likely, and soon British forces shut down Chinese ports.
Among many concessions during negotiations, China was forced to give up Hong Kong to the British. A second Opium War was waged from to against the British and the French, bringing more unequal agreements. Christian missionaries were allowed to flood the country, and western businessmen were free to open factories there. Ports were leased to foreign powers, allowing them to operate within China according to their own laws, and opium addiction rose.
The White Lotus sect was suppressed after an eight-year rebellion, lasting from to The Eight Trigrams sect rose up in , taking several cities and entering the Forbidden City before being defeated. The most deadly was the Taiping Rebellion , lasting from to Put into motion by Christian religious fanatic Hong Xiuquan, the city of Nanjing was occupied by rebels for a decade and 20 million Chinese died in the conflict. The widow of Emperor Xianfeng, who ruled from to , Cixi was regent for her infant son Tongzhi from to , then for her three-year-old nephew Guangxu, who ruled for 46 years with Cixi considered the real power behind the throne.
In , Guangxu tried to take on the role of reformer in an attempt to modernize China, but this effort was squashed by Cixi after several months. The Boxer Rebellion ignited in , the work of the Harmonious Fist secret society. The group seized the property of Christian missionaries, attracting militant followers, then moved into the cities, attacking and killing foreigners.
Western countries sent troops, but the Empress Dowager sided with the Boxers, declaring war on the West. Western forces defeated the Imperial Army and the Boxers in , executing government members who had supported the Boxers and imposing sanctions that weakened the Qing rule. The Qing Dynasty fell in , overthrown by a revolution brewing since , when western-educated revolutionary Sun Zhongshan formed the Revive China Society in Hawaii , then Hong Kong.
In , Sun united various revolutionary factions into one party with Japanese help and wrote the manifesto, the Three Principles of the People. In , the Nationalist Party of China held an uprising in Wuchang, helped by Qing soldiers, and 15 provinces declared their independence from the empire.
Within weeks the Qing court agreed to the creation of a republic with its top general, Yuan Shikai, as president. Xuantog abdicated in , with Sun creating a provisional constitution for the new country, which ushered in years of political unrest centered around Yuan.
In , there was a brief attempt to reinstate the Qing government, with Xuantog being restored for less than two weeks during a military coup that ultimately failed. Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Patricia Buckley Ebrey. The Dynasties of China. Bamber Gascoigne. China Condensed: Years of History and Culture. Ong Siew Chey. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The Han Dynasty ruled China from B. Though tainted by deadly dramas within the royal court, it is also known for its promotion of Confucianism as the state religion and opening the Silk Road trade route to Europe,
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