Why did the Qing Dynasty Fall? History of China 1895-1918 Documentary 3/10

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Qing Empire, Warlord Period, Sun Yat-Sen, Yuan Shikai, Warlord Era, Chinese History, China WW1, Boxer Rebellion, Xinhai Rebellion,

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Please put a year date on the screen when talking about different events. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell exactly when these different things happen. thank you

[@Chronos4088]

Didn't he do that on the other 2 parts? Weird

[@milascave2]

Jesse: Yea. With all these Chinese names popping up one after another, I lost track.

[@meejinhuang]

The Qing Empress built lavish palaces and gardens using money meant for their military. They were overthrown not long after.

[@jinvonastrea1141]

No offense to the manchu but the qing dynasty shouldn't even exist in the first place.

[@-haclong2366]

If someone with a brain killed Cixi then the Qing would have likely still existed and China could have been a powerful country, unfortunately she almost single-handedly used her bourgeois Conservative personality to prevent the continued existence of the Qing Dynasty.

[@leealex24]

@@jinvonastrea1141 As someone from south east asia with chinese heritage/ethnicity, I believe the most important person in China's transformation/success is Deng XiaoPing

[@derekchen7371]

It may sound rediculous today but actually the result of court politics that the Manchu royalty was urged to weaken Han warlords like Li Hongzhang. After Qing's fall, the newly founded repulic witnessed a glance of democracy and quickly slipped into decades of warlord rule.

[@kuanged]

All regimes ruling empires reaching their peak build fancy things to prove they've still got it. They have to. Court politics demand it, and if you don't show off your wealth to your officials then the aristocracy and court politicians will sense weakness and align against you. If you are too strong militarily, your people fear you and once again try to overthrow you. There is no way around this for anyone anywhere. Human beings are impossible to govern well since we're always shifting our alliances for personal gain.

[@EmperorCaligula_EC]

Honestly, that is the most depressing and chaotic history of ANY country I have heard before! It's like Battle Royale China for centuries!

[@JD78CN]

You should read about the warring states period, it was much worst. This was just about 50 years of chaos.

[@amazingpeterzhu]

Yeah, so we chinese very cherish peace and memorize the history of division, so we want to be unity in order to not be invaded by westerners or japanese.

[@hazzmati]

@@amazingpeterzhu this comment has been approved by the Chinese Commumist Party

[@amazingpeterzhu]

@@hazzmati approved by people of the whole world who love peace

[@amazingpeterzhu]

@@hazzmati and do i say something political?

[@Grabacr-pl3wy]

The more I learn about her the worse the Empress Dowager seems. She knew she was dying and instead of picking a grown reformer picked a cruel boy instead. Seems like the whole government was crab bucketing each other.

[@meow7983]

The issue, she’s in power for far too long and not willing to let go. Guang Wu emperor was too sheltered and thus not able to see the Qing army weakness and when the army lost, he totally loses it. The entire Qing court is also too ingrained in the Confucius culture thinking and afraid to speak up against superior or the emperor even when they see any problem, like for example the navy vessels having the wrong type of ammunition for their guns or the lack of competent commanders or commanders that that still stuck in 16 century warfare, they are afraid of speaking up as they fear it will weaken the authority of the emperor or the royal family.

[@mxn1948]

she and her supporters in government were very much extreme conservatives. to her credit she was able to overcome some of that and start some limited reforms, though they were far too little too late. Her fear and the reason she killed the guangxu emperor was because he was an extreme reformer and wanted to invite the japanese in and model the government based on japan's. had he succeeded china might have become a unstable military ran, constitutional monarchy but one that had a military able to fight. but there was a far greater danger that he would have failed and japan instead would have infested the government, leading to an even worse outcome for china than IRL.

[@sampuatisamuel9785]

@@meow7983 Speaking up would have been political disaster and risk being sentenced to death or being ordered to commit suicide

[@brainwasher9876]

She's up there with Jiang Ching as one of the most reviled women in Chinese history.

[@meow7983]

@@sampuatisamuel9785 yes you are correct. She is surrounded by yes men, and she only wants to hear “good news”. The whole problem with Confucius culture is that the superior is never wrong, even when wrong. You cannot tell the superior that he or she is wrong. You only can “advise” or “guide” the superior to self awareness of the problem

[@babyshark946]

I love the fact that even the Qing know that they can deny Italy's requests

[@interestingengineering291]

😂😂😂😂

[@arthas640]

A Qing-Italian war would be amazing to witness. 2 incompetent empires facing off against one another: on 1 side we've got a massive empire still stuck in the middle ages facing off against a much smaller but more modern empire that's almost as poorly run. Both empires are known for switching sides at the drop of a hat and both are heavily fragmented.

[@cxarhomell5867]

@@arthas640 I'd place my bets on Italy winning. The Italians have guts and strategy.

[@polignac]

@@cxarhomell5867 they couldnt even win against ethiopians with spears, let alone china which had more acess to firearms

[@shinybreloom4027]

the same weakened China who won wars against the Russian Empire and its successors in the frontiers of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, or Manchuria would probably win a war against Italy.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

FINALLY! I have been waiting a while for your final part!

[@VikingLord101]

Luxembourg!?!?!??

[@aw4955]

Impressive video. Sadly, many people still do not understand how important these events were and they shape our current geopolitical situation. You laid it out quite nicely. Well done.

[@arthas640]

True. It existed beforehand but after the Taiping Rebellion anti-western and anti-Christian sentiment became huge in China and the leaders back then through to the present day blame the Taiping Rebellion on Christian missionaries even though the Christian missionaries condemned the cult and western observers that visited the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" said they didnt look, sound, or act Christian at all (many didnt know much if anything about Christianity and even the ones who did deviated from Christianity so much it barely resembled it) and said they were simply a populist uprising. Even today there's a strong anti-Christian sentiment in China and people will often cite the Taiping Rebellion as a reason why, it ranks alongside the Opium Wars and Century of Humiliation in some peoples minds as reasons to fear, mistrust, and/or hate both Christianity and the West.

[@HNW00]

Are you ever going to cover the warlord era or the second Chinese civil War (1945-49) period? I noticed a lot of youtube content based on the fall of the Qing and WWII (1937-45) in China but little on the previous two topics mentioned.

[@Flow86767]

The second Chinese civil is particularly interesting.

[@didacclivilleoriol7057]

It would be interesting, but it is a very complicated era in Chinese history.

[@toxicalyss]

Oh Warlord Era aint that just the transition period before the next dynasty... It happens every hundred years or something right?

[@toxicalyss]

@@Flow86767 There has been civil wars since the Qin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. Why do they even call it the second one its obscurd. Civil wars have been fought for every reunification of China.

[@FazeParticles]

@@toxicalyss yup. warlords don't have vision to they get consumed by more ambitious characters.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Ding Ling (丁玲) once wrote: "Only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end"

[@Ferroes]

Ling Ding was wise and long

[@kaushalraj2597]

Bro I appreciate your cunning tactics to gain subscriber. If you make quality content so you wouldn't have to do so. So I reported your all comments.

[@larrywave]

@@kaushalraj2597 why 🤔

[@larrywave]

@@kaushalraj2597 now that i have seen couple of his videos ill say they are ok and he seems to be getting better 🤔

[@snuscaboose1942]

A communist who is willing to butcher their own people would say something like that.

[@andreaskroknes4407]

Holy moly, this series has been so well-made!

[@owenklein1917]

I love this series you made. I’ve always been intimidated by the history of China as it is so deep but this series made a small part of their history easier to learn

[@taiwanisacountry]

I am a bit biased since it is my area of expertise. But the history of Taiwan under Qing rule is really fascinating. It was just a place where you dumped all your shitty rulers. The oversees, a bit hard to explain what their job was. When you are forced by your family to hire your drunken uncle in your successful business because he has been homeless before and we don't want to see that again. Then you give him the job of overseeing Taiwan. It was this bad. Except it was also the extra cruel people were also sent to Taiwan, not because it was necessary but because nobody would mind if they messed the place up.

[@Mo_Mudabber]

@@taiwanisacountryQing china’s Australia 😭

[@taiwanisacountry]

@@Mo_Mudabber not really. Australia was ment to me a prison island. So the population was bottom of the barrel. But for Taiwan the people were fine but the politicians were literally only those people who you had to give a job or they would try to assassinate the emperor, or they would cost a ton of money to clean up after their messes. Bottom of the barrel leaders, the extra incompetent, or the extra cruel and ruthless.

[@Shre_k__]

@@Mo_Mudabber underrated comment

[@animation1234111]

Is Sun Yat Sen the most revolutionary revolutionary in history? Who else can claim this many under their belt?

[@robezy0]

Yeah he's also the only modern Chinese politician who is highly respected on both the Mainland and Taiwan

[@realrhetoric]

He basically had a franchise selling a dream of a great big ever growing China, under exclusive Han management a dream he sold to well-heeled expat Chinese by tugging on their loyalty heartstrings. (China was in a mess then, and it was your duty as a loyal Chinese to give some money to Sun to make it all better.) When the Qing collapsed and he found himself handed the keys to the casino, he fumbled. Not his fault, really, I don't expect he ever dreamed he'd have to try to make good on all those promises.

[@mxn1948]

@@realrhetoric i dont think you can blame him too much though. from his view it was either bloody civil war that could last decades or hand the presidency to yuan who seem to have pro-republican ideas at the time and could control the military, in return for a peaceful transition of power from the imperial leadership. of course hindsight is 20/20 and yuan tried to make himself emperor and muti-decades long civil war happened anyways but sun couldn't have known at the time./

[@realrhetoric]

@@mxn1948 Ruling paradigms don't change in a decade or two. The government of China is still understood by itself to be a continuation of the Dynasties that preceded it; as an outsider, viewing the current government as the Dynasty Mao founded still best explains all subsequent behaviour. You're right, though. Founding a dynasty in China is no mean feat, and that Sun Zhong-shan wasn't up for it -- or the time wasn't right (depending on how you look at it) -- shouldn't detract from an evaluation.

[@CongSu]

@@mxn1948 Sun never had that choice, Yuan had already defeated the revolutionaries, he just didn’t deal the final blow because he needed the excuse to pressure Qing to abdicate. If Sun didn’t accept, Yuan would probably skip the pretence and crown himself emperor directly.

[@jameseden9380]

Ah now I have to watch the first 2 again. Thank you so much for these. Very informative.

[@mantis2048]

Phenomenal mini documentary. You deserve way more subscribers

[@codyshi4743]

When comparing China of today to China back then, I'm amazed at how much transformation and changes that China has gone through, to become the China that we know today.

[@alexv3357]

Surprisingly enough too, almost all of that growth and development has happened since 1980.

[@codyshi4743]

True. Right now they’re still growing and changing.

[@wingkeungkong415]

@@alexv3357 after the。64 Movement China has no more political uphaven anymore

[@alexv3357]

@@wingkeungkong415 I think you may be forgetting the brutally-suppressed upheaval of 1989

[@wingkeungkong415]

@@alexv3357 They are the red. guard if they are in power million Chinese will die they would just stop the modernization of China

[@ayami123]

I give you props that you started the Warlord Period, well you can't really name every warlord, It will be a Map Gore Hahaha So I'm fine with this.Nice

[@rocknrollkid90]

Including, the second, Sino-Japanese War, along with World War II, and the Chinese Civil War.

[@Lawrance_of_Albania]

There is so much turmoil and rebelions, that i am starting to belive balkans is an very piecefull place

[@newerfor]

There was another important figure in Chinese history - Zhang Zhidong. He was a rather open minded and progressive high ranking Qing governor, under his watch, the seed of revolution was planted among the "new armies" in Hubei and Hunan province. Sun Yat-sen might be recognized as the founding father of RoC, but it was the Hubei army made it all possible.

[@flyingbirdskingcloud2908]

Zhang Zhidong is a native of Guizhou Province in the southwest region.

[@jorgeh.r9879]

Jabzy, a video on the Spanish conquest of the Canary islands, pre-islamic Arabia, Anatolian peoples or the life and times of Ahmad Shah Massoud would be pretty interesting.

[@ivantheteribul]

6:11 was a more ambitious crossover than Avengers.

[@jesperburns]

I think it'd be helpful to add dates to the video on screen. If not just the date where a change happened, maybe also the dates in which certain people were alive or did certain things.

[@kuroazrem5376]

This is the most thorough and complete description of this very confusing period! Thanks a lot!

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Please make parts 4 and 5 for this series. I would love for it to keep moving forward

[@alexandruchira184]

You are the most underated Chanel on the platform

[@bernardfinucane2061]

In the pinyin transliteration, C is always soft, pronounced more or less like TS, but never like K. Q is pronounced much like the English CH sound, and never like K, and X ist something like SH.

[@christopherdonaghue2461]

I was just about to make such a comment. It's the inability of most video makers to even try to pronounce Mandarin properly that has always prevented me from being able to enjoy them. I usually give up as soon as I hear my first needlessly butchered pronunciation. I understand it's not going to be perfect (three years with the language and my pronunciation isn't absolutely perfect), but if one is not going to even try, how can I trust one to have tried with the historical research that went into the video? All it takes is a quick look at the opening pages of a lot of popular history books to find out the general guidelines for pronunciation, or a Chinese language textbook, most of which start with a chapter on phonetics.

[@Polli_Apple]

and the E is never "ee"...

[@snczsw1555]

In fact，Mao Zedong was anarchist when he was young，but change to communist when 27（by his friend Cai Hesen，who killed by KMT in1931）

[@adefay2811]

I think that's just the natural progression of life. If you still have the same political views in your older years then you need more life experiences.

[@kimok4716]

This map of China is just gorgeous

[@varjan86]

Great Videos, thanks. What books and resources did you use for your research? Sources would be very helpful. Thank you.

[@laurencekennedy325]

Can you cover the history after this video never knew how interesting the history of china really was and would love to learn more

[@Y81715]

@Jabzy. Hi, a very thoughtful and nice intro to the period. Just a little feedback: although I'm sure you will fair just fine. In my opinion it is way too fast paced. Feels like you sped up your audio even. You can say more with less, let the graphics complement you, not just repeat what you've said already. It is a lot of information in 31 mins, you deserve to have something visually to frame the time-periods - and some color-codes for characters and their representation on the map as example, or just flags/emblems. I'd also say that it wouldn't hurt with a historical photo or two, also to split up the video in a few chronological chapters. Your characters (and flags) are wonderfully animated and handdrawn! thanks. Thanks for acknowledging the great importance of Euro- and Russian anarchism in early Chinese socialist movements.

[@premiersportingkc3443]

Fantastic video!

[@AStewart-e1m]

Excellent exposition to a very complicated subject.

[@Vienna3080]

I do find it funny and sad how Wang Jingwe went from Anarchism to Japanese Fascism

[@arthas640]

it made a bit more sense at the time. The KMT used to cover most of the political spectrum with far left and far right factions, the Japanese in the early 20th century used to advocate for a pan-Asian alliance to counter the west, the advocated investing in other east asian nations to develop them, and they were originally pretty anti imperialist and they were modernists. Fascism itself went through similar changes, at various points it was more "third way" ie not really far left or far right but rather a blending of the 2 and it was later in the late 30s that it became mainly far right although it still incorprated plenty of policies that were shared with far left ideologies like striving for autarky, nationalizing key industries, and fighting against capitalism and liberalism. His dalliance with anarchism is kind of hard to take seriously, it was while he was a foreign student back around the turn of the century and at the time anarchism was pretty diverse and divided even within single countries: often (such as in Russia) it was more of an anti-establishment and anti-imperialist ideology with people joining mainly out of those motivations then for any real ideals of creating an anarchist state which is why so many people started out as anarchists before siding with whatever end of the political spectrum they preferred or happened to be more powerful (such as all the anarchists that quickly joined the communist parties).

[@djoleprolece7524]

Thank you.

[@joeedge576]

No mention of Jiang Jieshi (know as Chang Kai-shek in the west), but mention Mao ? ? ?

[@Andreazor]

"Doubt everything" except us and what we say.

[@JD78CN]

Duan Qirui, was our neighbor in Tianjin. My dad was good friends with his kids. My family was pretty involved in the warlord era.

[@donovan5656]

Someone needs to make a full on GoT style TV show about this time period. It's so dense with conflict.

[@erikskoog8415]

great series m8 such and intresting period!

[@lzeng78]

Gosh, it is so painful every time i watch this part of chinese history

[@Howlingburd19]

One thing I’m positive about is the Qing Dynasty has one of the coolest flags ever

[@Ashina_03]

Awesome!!

[@ultraveridical]

Tremendous video!

[@rickyboii5971]

Many dont realize, but the chinese civil war never ended.

[@Dedog0]

I really like your videos Jabzy, content-wise and visually I really appreciate the effort and research that went into this. Yet, there are some issues with this episode that make it hard to listen to. For one your sentence/paragraph structure is rather weak, you keep repeating "And" and "And again" way too many times. I think you should try to avoid repetition when it comes writing the beginning of a sentence. Also there were some minor errors related to this, such as using a limited vocabulary and repeating things in the same sentences. My second issue is with your pronunciation of the chinese names. It's kind of hard to follow when you dont seem to know how to read the pinyin or Wade-Giles romanization. No one expects you to speak chinese well, such as knowing the tones or the differences between zh,ch,sh and j,q,x, but it makes it hard to follow when you dont pronounce the names consistently. I suggest that if you deal with chinese names in the future, you look up the "Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Chart with Audio" of the chinese yabla website, or alternatively read the yales romanizations for the chinese names by converting them from pinyin to yales. Yales has much more accurate results of pronounciation when read by an english speaker than pinyin or wales-giles. With all this criticism out of the way. Really fantastic series, enjoyed it immensely! Well done.

[@JabzyJoe]

The numerous ands and buts annoy me. I often write scripts without them but im awful and recording and it takes me numerous attempts. So eventually i break up longer sentences into these annoying chunks. I am trying to work on it though.

[@Palmakify]

Maybe do a series on How to Unify a Country? China, Germany, Italy, USA, and maybe one day Afghanistan.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Russia 🇷🇺 in 15th century

[@johnchan4136]

US historians, after the End of History was declared on the night before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, decided to change the old way of categorizing world history into four civilizations, namely Chinese, Babylon, Iranian and Indus, to only the Mediterrean Civilization and the North East Asian Civilization. One US historian from the University of Pennsyvania complained that soon after WWI, the West should not have rushed to blatantly advancing the plan of partitioning China by turning the German annexed territory in Shandong Province over to Japan despite the fierce opposition from the Chinese diplomatic representatives during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to 1920. The fully authorized Chinese delegation represented by the 27-year old diplomat, Gu Weijun, though raised and educated in the US since 6 years old made a one hour long passionate speech in English appealing to the West of not to play with Chinese territory. But on the other hand, the Western audience, while approving the speech made by the Japanese representative asking to take over the German territory in China as part of their conditions to support the Paris Peace Treaty, praised the Japanese culture being much more aligned with the West as the Japanese language is a close resemblance of the English. Apparently they didn't understand a single of English that the Japanese representing uttering during the speech. But they made up their mind without consulting the Chinese anyway. As a result, the news of Gu Weijun refusing to sign off the Paris Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1920 was telegraphed back to China the same day and protests erupted across the country with all schools and universities being shutdown. This is the famous and most pivotal May 4 Campaign of 1919 in the Chinese History. Students and teachers dashed to the streets days and nights for months, holding cards full of anti west slogans. Dr. Sun Yat-sen told the country from top to bottom to adopt the policy of "unionizing with Russian and adapting to communism" ~「聯俄容共」. From thereon, Chinese intellectuals plunged themselves into studying the reform experience of the Qin state prior to their uniting China under the Qin Dynasty in 220 BBC. Chinese Commumist Party came into being in 1921. On October 1 of 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong declared: "Chinese people are now organized". In 1953, one million Chinese voluntary soldiers defeated the heavily equipped US led alliance troops of half million strong in the Korean peninsula, using merely hand guns and grenades. China is now one of the leading countries in the world steadfastly fighting against opium and other illegal drugs. 1842 was the turning point for China as Britain started to have a free hand to pour opium into the country while the Qing government continued to be kidnapped by its silver based currency with importation of silver billions from the Phillipines and Mexico. Imagine couple of foreign gun boats with few hundred soldiers can quickly put the Chinese government on its knees by imposing a trade embargo using their naval might without engaging the groung troops. What a deal! They could stop the governing machine by stopping the silver trade. That's why the Qing government was doomed due to the currency issue never being modernised in the first place in the whole of 1800. None of these countries that tried to colonize China dared to take on China with one bite. The 5000 strong UK Royal army as part of the alliance force got decimated in the Korean War between 1951 to 1953 while the Turkish troops of 3000 never went home since then. The 4 million heavily armoured troops from Japan was defeated and literally obliterated in the vast expanse of Chinese territory, with or without the US help from 1937 to 1945. They thought they could swallow China in 3 days and the West got jealous and worried. The Rape of Nanking in 1937 by the Japanese army with 300,000 local people slaughtered and women from age 9 to 80 raped and killed indiscriminately. It never bothered anyone in the West. But The West finally started to realize that the Sino Japanese war helps unite the country from Lhasa to Beijing and Harbin to Guilin with all walks of life. They did not want to let the world to see China could defeat Japan on its own. So the US interfered in 1941 and took away the credit in winning over Japan. Napoleon once warned the West not to wake up the sleeping Lion. The West not only did once in 1942, but continued to do it over and over again in 1895, 1920, 1937 and 1951. Finally, Chinese tested it's hydrogen bomb in 1963, one year after its successful atomic bomb in 1962, without the help from any Jewish scientists. Finally the world ushered China into the global stage of a geopolitical war game, with two other players, US and USSR. But by 1965, China started to help Tanzania and Zambia to build their 2000 km cross border railway so they could start exporting their copper ore. In 1913, President Xi Jingping of China announced in Kazakhstan and Indonesia the world "One Belt One Road" infrastructure program to help countries develop by partaking China's economic archievments.

[@blankmoment2]

for a video about history of china, this had an suprising number of quote and mentioning of communism.

[@phatlewt2932]

Chinese history be like: the country loses to a foreign power, revolts happen in the south and west, emperor li mia fei is deposed, ching mu dong seizes power but resigns and dies shortly after, manchuria is occupied

[@ayouthinasia4105]

With a recent history like this, authoritarianism that can unite the country and make people rich along the way doesn't seem like a bad idea.

[@royhuang9715]

While the Chinese tried everything; monarchy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship, democratic republic, democratic communist, authoritarianism and authoritarianism with a twist (collective leadership: aka current Chinese government, power is shared between high ranking party officials to prevent another Mao from taking over the party). China experienced all kinds of government and settled on authoritarianism as the only way to reunite China. In a weird way, the Chinese people democratically elected authoritarianism as their government. That’s the reason Chinese authoritarian government was more stable than western think tank predicted.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

@@royhuang9715 china has a history with authoritarianism, ie mandate of heaven thing essentially says the emperor has absolute power since he is the son of heaven until he doesnt

[@royhuang9715]

@@Cecilia-ky3uw you clearly haven’t learned Chinese history. Towards the end of Qing dynasty, efforts was made to transfer the dynasty into a constitutional monarchy like Japan and many European countries at that time. However this effort failed. Then Qing dynasty collapsed and replaced by a republic, this new republic didn’t last long due to the raise of military dictatorship (regional warlords). A democratic republic was established in south China, and a 2 party system was created (communist/nationalist party). However this democratic republic didn’t survive, right winger in the nationalist transformed this new republic into a military dictatorship by killing communists, left wing nationalists and political opponents. Thus communist created their own government a democratic communist system (this is before Mao came to power). However the inefficiency and miss management of this communist democracy almost resulted in its destruction. And Mao came to power slowly reshaped the democracy into a dictatorship. After the devastating Great Leap Forward and culture revolution, communist leadership adapted collective leadership structure to prevent another Mao like dictator devastating the country. China experienced a lot different governing system in the past 150 years.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

@@royhuang9715 but for msot of its history it has been ruled by central monarch usually with legalist doctrine powers

[@royhuang9715]

@@Cecilia-ky3uw so? For most of human history slavery was legalized practice, is that still the case? Not really. Looking back 3000 years for political system is retarded.

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Damn - that's some crazy, complex shit. The Century of Humiliation in China is probably the most complicated 100 or so years of any country ever.

[@mciamx3]

The English translation of all the names was so confusing, you should at least display the Chinese names in the video for better understanding.

[@Mavendow]

TL;DL version: Everything went wrong, nobody could agree on WHAT was going wrong, but that was mostly an excuse to collect kickbacks. Did I miss anything?

[@Justin-rv7oy]

Poor Italy 🇮🇹 😢 you should do a video on their China misadventure. Great video btw.

[@Orlando_P]

And belgium and austria-hungary

[@randylee9267]

What such a sad history for China. I don't see any country bullying China now!!

[@Mrnewkrakbo]

Amazing

[@wrtekcz538]

30:36 ANOTHER GIGACHAD MENTIONED

[@epicworldespanol8312]

What is the name of the music? is so good and relaxing

[@musAKulture]

this...is insane! i applaud.

[@cainiaowu]

Not "duan ki ruai" but "duan chee ruei".

[@robezy0]

There were many mess ups but his pronunciation was still better than in most western documentaries. Pretty good for such a small channel tbh

[@Merle1987]

In terms of population which was bigger, China, or all the Western countries attacking it combined? China was basically at parity.

[@meow7983]

China population around that period is around 200 to 300 million. The issue that time is not about population. It’s about the mindset and the national industrial output. The general population during that period are mostly farmers and illiterate, this is largely due to the Qing gov policy of keeping the general population illiterate so as to control the flow of information, so that the gov can control the population thinking

[@mxn1948]

it was worse than that most of the time. plenty of times tens of thousands of the chinese military/militia couldn't stop a couple thousand attacking foreign soldiers. population wasn't important when you only have swords or outdated muzzleloaders when the enemy has bolt-action repeating rifles and long range artillery.

[@vistagreat9994]

@@mxn1948 Qing Military Tech: 8 Combined Allied Military Tech: 25

[@kowa8846]

@@vistagreat9994 So does that mean that a single foreign country military tech was 3? That doesn't make any sense, China is just China, they are such a disaster.

[@vistagreat9994]

@@kowa8846 Victoria 2 words also at the time French Territory was under Qing geographically

[@达到单纯的同学]

Simply because the Qing dynasty did not represent the vast majority of the Chinese people, it only served the interests of the Manchu aristocracy

[@700gsteak]

They rejected British arms offered to them because they knew a modernized general army would kick the manchu back out.

[@anestisparastatidis3714]

Ah finally you did it!

[@VikingLord101]

What is the background music?

[@anarchopupgirl]

Hell yes! Kropotkin! My main man!

[@anarchopupgirl]

I have to say, from my reading on the matter in the past, the Frugal work-study movement was a but of an embarassment to anarchists. Poor organisation and understanding of the state of modern France led to lots of students ending up working awful underpaid factory work to pay their way back, where they'd expected a fascinating education on france's Liberal Revolution. I suppose they got that in a way.

[@eatathepizza4449]

@@anarchopupgirl well yeah everything is a failure in anarchy

[@avus-kw2f213]

10:15 what do you expect Tom & jerry wouldn’t be invented for years

[@thijsbergman2424]

You value ads more than history

[@damascus21]

Yuan Shikai suddenly trying to claim the mandate of heaven just as momentum for a real Chinese republic really ruined things for a solid 30 years huh

[@tonytomato100]

The fist of harmony and justice is better known as the boxer society

[@vanders4198]

Wish I could support Zhang Xun!

[@zainmudassir2964]

wonder what would have happened if Yuan Shikai didn't try to become Emperor in 1916 which led to revolts and warlord era. Maybe a United China under Military rule when Japanese decided to invade and harder for Communists to come to power

[@senorwaluigi8515]

Thanks for saving my shitty Workday! Great Job and Research as always.

[@WhyGodby]

5:40 The Ma family Ma balls

[@512TheWolf512]

11:50 OH MY GOD you can't make this shit up! absolutely hilarious

[@freddekl1102]

That he opened soybean factory to effectively finance dissenters?

[@512TheWolf512]

@@freddekl1102 yep. literally soy-powered anarchists, "antifa" are just a shallow copy of the original

[@TheZachary86]

@@512TheWolf512 What's wrong with starting a business as an anarchist? do you even know what an anarchist is?

[@danielnoahalie9186]

SoYbEaNs!

[@perrytran9504]

@@TheZachary86 That's not what everyone was laughing at. It's the fact the business dealt with soy since soyboys today are stereotypically far left anarchists.

[@SFVYachtClub]

_Something something China and things exploding when they shouldn't explode_

[@leealex24]

I believe the most important person in China's transformation/success is Deng XiaoPing

[@Nishkid641]

Wish Manchuria still existed to this date so people could easily realize that Qing was Manchurian, similar to Yuan was Mongol. During Yuan and Qing rules, China was a part of Mongolia and Manchuria respectively.

[@yeshiyangzom8532]

China is composed of Manchuria, Mongolia, Hanland, Uyghurstan and Tibet.

[@CannibaLouiST]

They could had last longer if they never banned hairstyles.

[@HelminthCombos]

and the ccp says theres 5000 years of chinese unity.

[@ElBandito]

Cai is pronounced as Tsai.

[@rogerr.8507]

that sun yat sen guy is a big troublemaker

[@dtyhb]

And that's why did those silly Manchurian fall, and Chinese regain a country.

[@dtyhb]

Manchurian history belong to Manchu barbarian, the east Hans which was successed.

[@danielarevalo6222]

what kind friendly nations

[@svihl666]

31:06 / 31:06

[@jamesleger3670]

Kung Fu Fighting

[@rogerr.8507]

are these the revere the emperor expel the barbarian guys?

[@Mr.Nichan]

You pronunciation of Chinese names is even more ad hoc than your pronunciation of other languages, but at least your even less alone with that.

[@stimmo88]

I love the series, but if you learn a little Pinyin you would pronounce the names much better :) for example, a Q roughly makes a 'ch' sound and a C makes a 'ts' sound.

[@nholmes86]

Seriouls NOW i understand the chinese position of today ! they DEVELOPED thanks to the europeans !

[@向博-y3n]

西藏去哪里了

[@yl2195]

政治正确 你懂的

[@deer7346]

辛亥革命后十三世达赖喇嘛宣称独立了一段时间，直到北伐战争结束

[@deer7346]

这里的地图是按势力影响来画的，就像之前几期清朝疆域把朝鲜也画在图中。在辛亥革命后对西藏的控制主要落入英国势力范围。

[@JabzyJoe]

Have a look at my guide to Tudor London - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqaVcp-ZbJuhgNk Plus, there will be a vote on patreon on which country to do next (or just to carry on with China) - so if you'd like to help out please think about joining - www.patreon.com/jabzy

[@AmanKumarPadhy]

At 6:20 , "the foreigners werent allowed permission to enter the country". Ya know, many a time i wud hear about the expedition and china declaring war on basically planet earth, and i would think, 'Huh? Why do that?' It actually makes sense that the consv were convinced by extremists that the foreign incursion was too much of a slight on the nations honour and therefore must be resisted. Thanks a lot jazby!

[@musAKulture]

what?

[@ydk1k253]

Chinese battle royale wooo

[@prastagus3]

"as western democracy were beginning to be seen as hypercritical" .. who really lost China? Western democracies and their colonialism.

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

murica saved china. thanks to that scramble of china never happened

[@kuroazrem5376]

If China had adopted anarchism, I'm sure as hell the CCP wouldn't have become nearly as authoritarian as it is today. By the way, Anarchism had existed in China prior in some Daoist circles.

[@ImAMassiveBender]

I think the Cultural Revolution was an anarchic movement with similar methods and ideology to modern anarchist movements like antifa, and it became such a capricious and brutal nightmare for everyone that I think modern statist authoritarian government is a continuation of the political consensus that was a reaction to the cultural revolution.

[@amazingpeterzhu]

Daoist has more than 2500 years history, and Anarchism or "无为而治(means Government almost do nothing)" is always one of their famous theories and was implemented before 2000 years ago, not appear recently. and CCP, it is not we ruled by CCP, in fact it is we chose CCP after a long time chaos between 1850 - 1950. you don't have these miserable memories so you will not understand why most of Chinese like CCP especially in 1949.

[@amazingpeterzhu]

@@ImAMassiveBender Yeah, I agree with you. no western countries develop by anarchy, democracy, in fact they are strong because they seized a lot of profits from the colonies and triangular trade and formed the original accumulation of capital.

[@prastagus3]

@@amazingpeterzhu developed by capitalism with democracy as a front. Colonialism was western capitalism gone wild

[@smiley4669]

@@amazingpeterzhu Lol you didn't choose anything. No Chinese ever voted in a national election. Mao seized power by gun and declared himself leader for life.

[@miguelk4198]

map trash, too many errors to explain

[@klausbarbie4413]

All roads really do lead back to Rome....

[@jackmciver2214]

idk, I feel this video was a little unfair to the empress dowager. Like she wouldn't have launched a palace coup, but she had to since her life was at risk. Also I think you downplayed her part in the 100 days reform as well. Overall i think she gets a pretty bad rap by most historians, but hey that might just be me.

[@dionysius-germanicus_digna3740]

It’s incorrect that the Guangxi emperor was the main proponent of reform, a brilliant book ‘Empress Dowager Cixi’ explains how as a major person and controller of the imperial court Cixi spearheaded reforms from the imperial government. Also the reason the Guangxi emperor was placed under house arrest was because of his naive flirtation with Wild Fox Kang, who believed he was an incarnation of a famous Chinese sage and tried to usurp power within the government. Guangxi it seems encouraged, collaborated or knew of Kang’s plot to kill Cixi who was the most powerful figure of the imperial government and court. Cixi was alerted by General Yuan, who was informed by one of the plotters who sought his participation in seizing control of the government after the coup. In response Cixi arrested all the plotters that could be caught - Kang fled to Japan and essentially became an asset for the Japanese, thereafter claiming to be seeking to free the emperor from Cixi and kicking off the black legend about her that she was in fact a conservative figure who was responsible for holding China back from modernising. The emperor himself was placed under house arrest by Cixi and the grand council and other members of the court knew what he had tried to assist in. Unfortunately, for Cixi it was not possible for her to state the truth about events and so opportunists like Kang and many Western diplomats and leaders perceived incorrectly that Cixi was anti-Western and conservative.

[@jasonreviews]

Cuz us chinese are too busy fighting each other. Then other nations want to beat us up. So yeah.... Things haven't changed.

[@erlingqiericyice1977]

反贼认为西方会带来自由民主，刘晓波说嚷西方殖民300年，其实这100年并不是耻辱而是中国的最大荣幸，100 years of proud of China as a western colony who brought freedom and democracy, 历史就是宣传工具，一旦接受了，100年耻辱可以变成100年荣幸