qing dynasty

Initially the Qing Dynasty only accepted silver in trade. To bypass this the British East India Company smuggled Opium into China. In 1839 China burned the company's Opium store house. The Company retailed with the world' first Iron steam-warship Nemesis. It captured Nanjing in 1842 and...

The POD is instead of turning isolationist Tokugawa develop a navy on par with Korea and launches amphibious invasion of later Jin. Later they vasalize Korea. The finally invade China after Shun dynasty collapses the Ming Dynasty and divide it among the clans of Japan How will this affect the...

what if Russia fashioned itself towards the Qing & Joseon, perhaps if they won against the Qing during their border skirmishes, and successfully Russified the entirety of the Amur Basin / Manchuria

Lately, I've been reconsidering some worldbuilding I've done for a project I've been working on since last year. At first, I was solely focusing on how China under the Qing Dynasty could have modernized earlier. However, I noticed that after comparing notes with my creative consultant in which...

What events would need to be changed during the late Qing era so the future warring factions would fight for a shorter time and without killing nearly as many civilians?

The Tang dynasty is often called “cosmopolitan” due to its openness to trade, new ideas, expansionism, embrace of Buddhism, etc. The Song dynasty was also another period where trade was a major focus in Chinese civilization. During the Yongle Emperor’s reign, this too was obviously an applicable...

In the years leading up to the First Opium War, a debate occurred within the Qing government over how the opium problem should be addressed, with one side arguing for its legalization (so that the state could tax it and thus give some much needed cash to the treasury) and another for harsher...

The main leader of the Taiping Rebellion, which led to the death of at least twenty million people, Hong Xiuquan was a very unorthodox Christian who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. This belief came from a vision he had while suffering a nervous breakdown after his...

Like it says on the tin. Suppose that Hong Xiuquan passes the imperial Chinese examinations the first time (instead of trying four times and failing), and becomes a scholar-bureaucrat who holds an administrative post somewhere in Guangdong. This means he's not insane (or is at least less so than...

Zhu Youjiao, the Tianqi Emperor 朱由校 天啓帝 In May 1626, a series of incidents took place whose details even today remain obscure. It is important to note that few people in the imperial court of Beijing were fond of Wei Zhongxian. A eunuch, apparently of dissolute background, he had clawed his way...

The Qing dynasty was one of the most iconic in Chinese history, and also the last. While there was a short-lived attempt by Yuan Shikai to make himself emperor and an even shorter-lived attempt to restore the Qing to power, China has been a republic for the past century, and even if the People's...

The Qing dynasty held the largest empire of any Chinese dynasty, and not even modern China has equaled its territorial extent. However, it didn't necessarily have to be that way. For a significant amount of its lifetime, the Qing empire consisted of Greater Manchuria, China Proper, Taiwan and...

how would an Industrialized China Industrialized per unit as Germany fight WW1 allied with central powers if it already conquered Japan, Korea, Philippines and never gave up outer Manchuria to Russia WW1 and 19th century European wars happen similary because far east didn't effect wars in...

This is an idea that came to mind when working on a personal project. Basically, in my timeline where Empress Dowager Cixi dies in 1875, resulting in the Qing Dynasty modernizing and ultimately becoming a constitutional monarchy in the mid 1890s, China ends ups becoming the home of the world's...

In OTL, the Ming to Qing Transition was a whole mess. It first started off with the Jurchen Tribes uniting into the Later Jin (Future Qing) and invaded Liaodong Peninsula, with natural disasters and then famine, while previously natural disasters then famine occurred, which caused a peasant...

This is something that came to my mind as I was looking for ideas. I realized that rather than create a full fledge timeline just to see how long the Qing Dynasty would last, I just wanted to find a conflict for a potential short story. And this was something I thought of seeing as there have...

Nothing says the territory controlled by the Qing dynasty necessarily had to get extensive as it did, at least AFAIK. Your challenge is to have the Qing empire consist solely of Manchuria, China proper, and Inner Mongolia.

I am happy to say that I am almost at the conclusion of my alternate Qing timeline. I have basically reached a part that I don't know if I want to include in the timeline, but would be fun to share. Before we get to the main subject, let me give a brief summery of what happens prior. In 1875...

Hello! This is a timeline I’ve decided to write, based on the fundamental premise that the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, a rebellion of regional militarists that broke out against the early Qing dynasty in the 1670s and nearly toppled them, succeeded. I want to explore how exactly that could...

Could the Ming Dynasty get reliable support from a foreign power in order to defeat the Manchu invaders? Assuming some European nation is able to lend the Ming support would that be enough to give the dynasty a new lease on life? What nation could help the Ming? Would it require a POD for a...