China’s modern history

The ming dynasty 

The Ming dynasty’s end was near the beginning of “The Qing dynasty” was about to start and it was going to take over their economy and start mass famine. Their country was under bad weather where their people were dying. This was driving the people crazy. Epidemics were spreading in the country and many people died plus there was a peasants uprising (1627-1658) and to top it off “The Manchu conquest” in 1644.

The fall of the Ming dynasty

As chaos very violently erupted in the dynasty, 2 Rebel leaders known as “Li Zicheng” and “Zhang” took control and the Manchus took over and established the well known Qing dynasty. The last emperor died in 1644, which marked the end of this once dominant dynasty.

Qing dynasty 

In the early 1800s, the Qing dynasty was miserable, as the Population grew massively and it led to food shortages.There wasn’t enough farmland or jobs to support everyone and poverty led many to rebel against the Qing dynasty. It was starting to break and then it became history. Foreign powers were also starting to involve themselves in trade with China, which led to wars and treaties that harmed the Qing. The British took Hong Kong and many nations took parts of China which then with the boxing revolts till then the Qing dynasty was doomed to collapse anyways.

Republic of China

In 1911 China the once great Qing dynasty collapsed,China declares itself a republic in 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as the first president of the republic. Many parts of the Qing dynasty left, such as outer Mongolia, then the Russians took outer Manchuria and WW2 didn’t help either with Japan taking over all of China basically. 4 years after China declared itself an republic the president declared himself the emperor of China which reformed motive leaders like Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Tse-tung who fought old warlords of China and each other thought that this period of time will stop the country into falling to the hands of the foreign aggressors. Later the small wars became a real war between Chiang Kai-shek controlling the nationalists and the well known Mao Zedong leading the communists. 

Communists 

On 1 October 1949, Mao formally proclaimed the disputed creation of the People’s republic of China. The communist victory had a big impact on the world balance: therefore China became the world’s largest socialist state by population and from there the Sino-Soviet split which played a crucial and strategic role making a third major force in the Cold War.

Modern china

Today Modern China is well known for its communist regime which still comes into play even today and now being the largest proclaimed socialist state in terms of econominamy, population and size. And is well on its way to becoming the super power it wanted to be.