Why did Mao Zedong create the Republic of China? What advantage did the Communists have over the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War? What inspired Hong Xiuquan in leading the Taiping Rebellion? What was the significance of the Xia dynasty?
These included the Taiping Rebellion, the Gold Rush, and the Transcontinental Railroad. When was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion repealed? The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was repealed by the Magnuson Act of 1943. This act established a yearly quota of 105 Chinese immigrants. What is the Chinese ...
The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict fought in 1904–05. It was the first war in modern times in which an Asian power (Japan) defeated a European power (Russia). Russia’s loss sparked the Revolution of 1905 in Russia and signaled the emergence
Taipings Rebels started belief of sharing poverty, communism influenced Chinese National party. Rebellion was crushed by Chinese along with British and French showing a premature negative attitude toward communism Pax Mongolica The Mongol's restored Afro-Eurasian trade routes, spreading world religions and...
How did the Taiping Rebellion affect foreign relations with China? What are the major contributions made by Qin Shi Huangdi to China? What was the significance of the Conquest Dynasties in Chinese history when it comes to the Dynastic Cycle? What was the last Chinese dynasty? What did the...
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising (1900) that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. ‘Boxers’ was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (‘Righteous and Harmonious Fists’). Learn more
Nogi Maresuke was a general in Meiji-period Japan. He served as governor of Taiwan (then occupied by Japan) and fought in the Russo-Japanese War. On the death of the Meiji emperor, Nogi and his wife committed ritual suicide by seppuku (self-disembowelmen
Stepan Osipovich Makarov was a Russian naval commander in charge of the Pacific fleet at the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. The son of an ensign, Makarov graduated from the Maritime Academy in 1865 and was commissioned an ensign in the Russian
Third Battle of Nanjing, the last major battle, fought March–July 1864, of theTaiping Rebellion. At the time of the Battle of Sanhe in 1858, the Taiping Rebellion inChinahad seemed capable of overthrowing the rule of theQing emperors. But by 1864 the bulk of the followers of Christiancon...