HIS284H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Second Opium War, Taejo Of Joseon, Unequal Treaty
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Officials were manchurian: they won over the scholarly class by giving them places in government, ruled by the manchu people from north eastern china who are a tungusic ppl. Lots of protest about manchu rule from the southern han who wanted to restore the. Last emperor of the qing was pu yi (12th: golden age of the 3 emperors ( to mid 1800s) kangxi, yongzhen and qinglong, best time for literature, culture, science and architecture. 1840s opium war: so qing faced aggression from outsiders as well as trouble inside (corrupt rulers and officials, revolution of 1911 led by sun-yat-sen toppled the qing dynasty. Illegal opium trade from brittan to china because it was the only item the chinese grew more and more addicted to In 1839, commissioner lin ze xu ended the trade by seizing and destroying british opium. Later that year (1860) chinese signed the beijing convention in accordance to the.
