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During his reign, the Qing dynasty experienced several wars and rebellions including the Taiping Rebellion, the Nian Rebellion, and the Second Opium War. He was the last Chinese emperor to exercise sole power. The fourth son of the Daoguang Emperor, he assumed the throne in 1850 and
9 March - Xianfeng Emperor succeed Daoguang Emperor as Emperor of the Qing dynasty; Taiping Rebellion. December 1850 - Hong Xiuquan defeats Qing forces sent to quell an uprising in Guangxi [1] Admiral Amaral's head returned, after his assassination in 1849, by Edict of Viceroy
The Qing dynasty was a period of literary editing and criticism, and many of the modern popular versions of Classical Chinese poems were transmitted through Qing dynasty anthologies, such as the Complete Tang Poems and the Three Hundred Tang Poems. Although fiction did not have the prestige of poetry, novels flourished.
The Daoguang Emperor (16 September 1782 – 26 February 1850), also known by his temple name Emperor Xuanzong of Qing, personal name Mianning, was the eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign was marked by "external disaster and internal rebellion".
For almost 200 years, the Qing Empire was governed by adult emperors. In the last fifty years of the dynasty—from the death of the Xianfeng Emperor in 1861 to the final abdication of the child emperor Puyi in 1912—the imperial position again became vulnerable to the power of regents, empress dowagers, imperial uncles, and eunuchs. [23]
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Sparked by a young man named Hong Xiuquan who was unable to secure a coveted civil service job, the 1850 Taiping Rebellion took over much of southern China, lasted 14 years, cost as many as 30 ...
View of the Canton River, showing the Thirteen Factories in the background, by Sunqua, 1850–1855 Seal of Sunqua on an album of pith paintings A painting on pith paper by Sunqua. Adilnor Collection, Sweden. Sunqua (active 1830–1870) was a Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty. He was one of the best known of the Chinese artists in 19th ...