While there might not be a real tangible reason why the qing dynasty collapsed, some people start to lay the blame on the western force. Personally,although the Western force may appear culpable, I believe it is unjustifiable to claim that it directly led to the destruction of the Qing dynasty. Rather than the western force, I believe the internal conflicts within China, and also the Qing dynasty itself are the greatest instigators for this downfall.
It is blatant that the reason Qing dynasty fell, was because of the Qing dynasty itself, basically because of their own government, and politics. The way Qing dynasty operated couldn’t handle all the forces slowly crumbling the dynasty into nothing. First of all, people in the qing were a “big
a. The Qing dynasty was proclaimed by rulers of the former Chinese vassal, the celestial kingdom , with its first capital at Shenyang (Mukden). When the Ming dynasty fell to rebel forces in 1644, the Qing earned the support of much of the bureaucracy and military by presenting themselves as protectors of the manchurian order. The Qing capital was moved to beijing that same year, and the new dynasty had reconquered all of southern China by Ming generals .
Some internal struggles that led to the fall of the Ottoman and the Qing were similar. Both civilizations strode to implement reforms to help restructure society. These reforms were more concentrated and more far-reaching in the Ottoman Empire, but we're just as ineffective as the Qing reforms. One of the Ottomans last sultans, Selim III, attempted to westernize society and the military. He exchanged ambassadors with European powers and allowed them to supervise Ottoman training. Over time, the westerners saw the Ottomans as barriers to more radical reforms. Thus, they began to clash with many classes in society, causing more conflict to arise. In China, many reforms were proposed and backed by radicals. The most well known radicals were the Taipings. Led by Hong Xuiquan, they sponsored
The Qing dynasty (1916-1912) is the last imperial dynasty of China, it was consider as the most powerful country during the “golden age” ruled by Kang Xi and Qian Long, and it has over 400 million population and has the 1st ranked GDP in the world at the moment. The Qing has the supreme power at the time and has the significant influence in East Asian. However, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty made a humiliate history of China. The Qing dynasty doesn't fall suddenly, and the collapse of Qing is not just simply because domestic revolution and alien invasion. The failure of the Qing government is worthy to study, we need to take a deep step and explore the root cause of the collapse of Qing.
Kangxi and Qianlong were two of the most outstanding emperors of the Qing Dynasty. During years from Kangxi to Qianlong, land was expanded, economic was developed rapidly, and society was stable. Kangxi and Qianlong brought booming and golden age of Qing dynasty along with Yongzheng. Although Kangxi and Qianlong both ruled the Qing Dynasty for more than sixty years and had similar governance methods of the empire, Kangxi led the Qing Empire to its peak because of his diligent during his entire lifetime, Qianlong led the empire to slowly decay due to his losing power in his late years.
I agree to a larger extent that the Qing Government was primarily responsible for causing the Taiping Rebellion. However, other underlying factors leading to the Taiping insurrection cannot be ignored. This essay will discuss how corruption in the Qing bureaucracy, the incompetent leadership, the closed mentality of the Qing Government, shortage of land and impact of an alien Manchu regime highlighted the Qing Government as the main cause of the rebellion. The essay would also include the other causes of the rebellion, such as the opium war and natural disasters.
The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were both some of the greatest empires in their time. The fall of the Roman Empire was followed by the fall of the Han Dynasty. Three major things that contributed to these empires falling were the economic troubles these empires were going through at the time, taxation was a huge trouble for some of these empires, trade was also a big contribution, and being economically weak had an impact as well. Political reasons were a major of why these empires fell, both these empires had problems when it came down to their rulers, both these empires also split into two at a point, as well as the gap between the rich and the poor.
When the Ming dynasty fell to rebel forces in 1644, the Qing earned the support of much of the bureaucracy and military by presenting themselves as protectors of the order. The Qing capital was moved to that same year, and the new dynasty had reconquered all of southern China by .
I believe that the Ming's biggest failure was its monetary flawed system. As stated in the book the issue with taxes and Taizu's influence of organizing the government with unpaid service really hurt the Chinese economy in the long run. With an empire as big as china paying your soldiers is necessary and as stated in page 194 soldiers who were not payed often deserted, or sold their lands. The transition to silver ingots from coinage and paper currency also hurt them in the long run as they were getting the silver from overseas and once they were cut off their economy quickly collapsed, and rebellion soon spread.
It was a failure for the Qing in the long term for it aroused Western
Each of these seemingly invincible dynasties all went on to eventually “collapse” for a myriad of reasons.
Long ago in the ancient times of Chinese history there were dynasties. Of the dynasties there was one among the others that was referred to as the golden age for China known as the Tang Dynasty. It is during this Dynasty a rebellion occurred that will forever hurt the Dynasty that leads to its own fall. This rebellion was led by a man named An Lushan that will become known as the An Lushan Rebellion. But even then, the Tang Dynasty had a rich society, economy and government up until its fall.
Many people argued that Empress Dowager Cixi accelerated the speed of the demise of the Qing dynasty. Cixi might be a blasting fuse but she was not accounted for the final fall of the dynasty. The actions Cixi took had profoundly changed the foundation of feudal China so as to push China forward into a modern stage. Although many historical data suggested that whatever Cixi had done were to consolidate her authority and personal status. But no matter what, the impact on the country was obvious. Cixi broke the previous traditions from Confucianism that had been lasted for centuries. Tensions between the Manchus and Han Chinese had been greatly improved, which made a great contribution to China for later unification. Under the reign of the Empress Dowager, the social structure had undergone a series of changes. Qing 's demise is doomed, this was resulted from issues that had stacked up from previous generations. Moreover, Cixi did her best to secure China’s status in the world in such a chaotic period in history. She made undeniable contributions to China.
Isolation of China by the Qing Dynasty did not benefit the country in the end. Removing itself from other nations had been in the works since the Ming Dynasty had ruled, and the emperors of the Qing Dynasty supported isolation as well. China also had strict restrictions with their trade, which scared many other countries away. In the 1800s, numerous countries finally attempted to escape China’s trade restrictions. These effects helped to collapse the already cracking country.
The Ming Dynasty ruled China from 1368 until the dynasty commenced deterioration. By the beginning of the 1600s, the Ming began to lose power due to “threats from Barbarians on all sides, political in-fighting,” rebellions, and poor loyalty in the military (Ryder). Likewise, the spread of violence in China contributed to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty (Zarrow). In the year 1644, the Chinese rebels overthrew the dynasty (Williams). At this time, the Ming emperor committed suicide as the rebel armies invaded Beijing (Zarrow). After the rebels overthrew the Ming, the Manchu people stepped in to try and gain power.
The Qing dynasty ended in 1912 with a revolution; however, the dynasty had been in decline for more than a century before it fell. Corruption within the empire, population growth combined with food shortages, and the social unrest between the ethnic majority Han and the ruling Machu all contributed to the Qing dynasty’s downfall. Yet despite all of these internal issues, it was external pressures that caused the eventual collapse of Qing society. Foreign imperialism highlighted China’s backwardness to its own citizens and, and also heightened the already existing conflicts within China itself. It directly challenged the cultural nexus of power, which held China together for hundreds of years. This system combined