Qing Dynasty
China's last Manchu empire
01
The Manchu Conquest
1616–1661
02
Kangxi: The Sixty-One-Year Reign
1661–1722
03
Yongzheng and the Machinery of Autocracy
1722–1735
04
The Qianlong Zenith
1735–1796
05
The Qing World System
~1680–1820
06
Cracks in the Mandate
1796–1839
07
The First Opium War
1839–1842
08
The Taiping Cataclysm
1850–1864
09
The Second Opium War and the Tongzhi Restoration
1856–1875
10
Self-Strengthening and Its Limits
1861–1894
11
The Catastrophe: Japan, Concessions, the Hundred Days
1894–1898
12
The Boxer Rising and the Last Reforms
1899–1908
13
The Xinhai Revolution and the End
1908–1912