How did the Chinese Empire collapse? | Xinhai Revolution | History of China
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China’s Qing dynasty suffered massive defeats and hardships throughout the 19th century. Two Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sino-Japanese war and natural disasters and famine. Surely, this couldn’t go on for much longer? And indeed, it wouldn’t. In 1911, the sequence of events was triggered that would result in the abdication of China’s last emperor and collapse of the Qing dynasty. Many plots had been devised for this to happen - twisted irony has it that it started with an accidental bomb explosion with no master plan at all. And Sun Yat-sen, principal architect of the revolution, was thousands of miles away.
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Time Codes:
0:42 The Revolutionary Alliance
3:32 The Wuchang Uprising
6:45 The Qing Responds
9:44 The Republic of China
11:51 The Last Emperor
13:27 Conclusion
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Baum, R. (2010). The Fall and Rise of China. The Great Courses: Modern History.
Fairbank, J. K., & Reischauer, E. O. (1989). China: tradition & transformation (Vol. 57). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Horst, D. (1977). Geschiedenis van China. Het Spectrum.
Spence, J. D. (1990). The search for modern China. WW Norton & Company.
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