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"China, Europe, and the great divergence: a study in historical national accounting, 980–1850." Journal of Economic History 78.4 (2018): 955–1000. online; Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (U of California Press, 1998) excerpt; Chai, Joseph C. H. An economic history of modern China (Edward Elgar ...
The Chinese territory that existed between the 1750's after the Qing Dynasty had completed its overall unification of China and 1840's before the aggression and encroachment on China by the imperialist powers is the territorial and geographical scope and range of China, a logical and natural formation from the historical process over thousands ...
The Chinese census, officially the National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, is the national census of the People's Republic of China. It has been carried out seven times in the history of the People's Republic of China. 1953: First National Population Census of the People's Republic of China
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that were having a census in the year 1800 (which were on various dates in that year). The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1, pages 21 to 24, which cover population ...
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August 22 — Battle of Taku Forts (1860), British and French forces capture Taku forts in north China. September 22 — The Xianfeng emperor abandons the capital. October 13 — British and French troops occupy Beijing. October 18 Destruction of the Old Summer Palace [3] October 24 Sino-British Treaty of Beijing signed. Taiping Rebellion [2]
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of China. Pages in category "Maps of China" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
A map of the Qing dynasty, c. 1820 Official map of the Qing Empire published in 1905 In the 19th century the empire was internally restive and externally threatened by western powers. The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War (1840) led to the Treaty of Nanking (1842), under which Hong Kong was ceded to Britain and importation of ...