Yet behind the China we see today lies a fascinating, complex and turbulent history - one that must be explored to truly understand the modern republic. Epic History. Rise of China - Last of the Qing.

China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, lasted for over 250 years, from the 17th century to the early 20th century. However, the Qing Dynasty, which had been prosperous for nearly 200 years, ...

For decades, Chinese scholars have been toiling at the party’s behest to draft an official history of the Qing, China’s last imperial dynasty, which the Manchu ethnic group led for nearly 270 ...

The Qing fell in 1911 and following decades of warfare, power was seized by the Communist Party, which sought to grind out all vestiges of China’s imperial past.

Opium was de facto legalized in China at the end of the 1850s, a catastrophic moment for the officials steering the late Qing state. The government had lost two wars to the British, producing a ...