During the mid-19th century in China, a series of revolts against the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) raged, devastating the landscape and claiming millions of lives. The Nian Rebellion (1851-1869 ...

Peasant leader Lin Qing, who plotted to overthrow Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty, and subsequently ... Lin and his cohorts began to plot their uprising, remaining their sect the Religion ...

It killed millions of people on both sides of the rebellion and left much of southern China in ruins. People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much ...

The great peasant uprising of the Yellow Turban at the close ... During the Revolution of 1911 that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, and in the May 4th Movement of 1919, there were also a great number ...

The Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty was a period ... in far northeastern China. As the rebellion gained speed and approached Beijing, a series of smaller peasant revolts broke out through ...

Meanwhile, within the dynasty, several high-level Qing administrators attempted reforms to root out corruption and entice the ruling family to be more responsive to the people's desires. The Boxer ...

The discovered sites and items, spanning from the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), provide outstanding examples from more than 1,700 archaeological excavations ...