The Gathering Storm: Prelude to Conflict The late 19th century was a period of imperial decline for China’s Qing Dynasty, […]
The Scramble for China and French Ambitions in the Southwest The late 19th century witnessed Western powers carving spheres of […]
The Fragmented Frontier: Xinjiang in the Mid-19th Century By the 1860s, China’s Qing Dynasty faced mounting crises, including the Taiping […]
The Historical Crossroads of Jinjibao Nestled near the golden-hued Jinji Mountain in what is now Ningxia, the fortress of Jinjibao […]
The Birth of a Peasant Resistance Movement In the mid-Qing Dynasty, the impoverished rural regions of Huaibei—spanning modern Henan, Anhui, […]
A Peaceful Mountain Hamlet Faces Imperial Storm Nestled in the forested hills near Beijing, the picturesque village of Xie had […]
The Powder Keg of Imperial Ambitions The mid-19th century marked a turbulent era for Qing China as Western powers, unsatisfied […]
The Taiping Rebellion at a Crossroads By the summer of 1856, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom appeared unstoppable. After three years […]
The Collapse of Imperial China and Rise of Revolutionary Fervor By the mid-19th century, China’s feudal society under the Qing […]
The Yangtze Delta: China’s Economic Lifeline Under Threat In September 1841, British military planners devised an audacious strategy to force […]