Defeating the Taipings

KEYWORDS “Barbarian”/yi/夷 Canton System Cixi Commodore Perry Extraterritoriality First Sino-Japanese War Gunboat Diplomacy Hong Xiuquan Kanji/Hanja Lin Zexu Meiji Restoration New Imperialism Opium Wars Orientalism Russo-Japanese War Scramble for Concessions Secret Societies Self-Strengthening Movement Taiping Rebellion “Ti-Yong” Treaty of Aigun Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking) Treaty of Shimonoseki Treaty of Tianjin Treaty Ports/Treaty Port System Unequal Treaties Yan Fu Zeng Guofan Zongli Yamen TIMELINES Periods 1644-1911 Qing Dynasty Events 1690s-c.1800 Qing Eurasian campaigns 1726 first Qing edict banning opium (est. 200 chests of opium imported into China annually (see 1820)) 1780-1831 Population of England doubles c.1800 Estimated 1,500 county-level officials oversee 300,000,000 subjects 1793 Macartney Embassy to the Qing 1820 est. 10,000 chests of opium imported annually (see 1726) 1839-1842 First Opium War 1842 Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking) 1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion 1856-1860 Second Opium War 1857-8 Britain dissolves East India Company, takes direct control of South Asia (British Raj lasts until 1947) 1858 Treaty of Tianjin 1860 Amur annexation by Russia 1861 American Civil War begins 1861 British support Qing against Taiping 1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement 1864 Qing suppresses Taiping rebellion 1871 Russian occupies Ili in northwest 1876 Japan-Korea Treaty (Treaty of Ganghwa [Kanghwa]) 1894-5 First Sino-Japanese War 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki 1897 Korean king Gojong renamed Emperor 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War