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2 days ago · Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan with the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895, following the Qing dynasty's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. The Qing Empire in 1820, with provinces in yellow, military governorates and protectorates in light yellow, tributary states in orange.
1 day ago · The Qing dynasty (/ tʃ ɪ ŋ / ching), officially the Great Qing, [d] was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history. The dynasty, proclaimed in Shenyang in 1636, [ 7 ] seized control of Beijing in 1644, which is considered the start of the dynasty's rule.
3 days ago · Qing policies toward Central Asia frequently deviated from the tributary ideal, Chinese relations with Russia being a case in point. The early Qing rulers attempted to check the Russian advance in northern Asia and used the Russians as a buffer against the Mongols.
1 day ago · The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The revolution was the culmination of a decade of agitation, revolts, and uprisings.
1 day ago · Qing laws forbade intermarriage between respectable commoners (“good people”) and the mean people, who were also barred from sitting for the civil service examinations. Despite attempts in the 1720s to return some of these mean people to ordinary commoner status, the social stigma persisted throughout the dynasty.
Oct 2, 1998 · Enough grounds were found by conservatives out of power to blame the reforms for the fall of the dynasty. Zhezong’s successor, Huizong (reigned 1100–1125/26), was a great patron of the arts and an excellent artist himself, but such qualities did not make him a good ruler.
2 days ago · In 1860, the British-French Allied Forces waged the Second Opium War Against China and forced the Qing Government to sign the Sino-British Treaty and the Sino-French Treaty (Convention of Beijing) respectively.
