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The China History Podcast

Ep. 40 | The Qing Dynasty (Part 6)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week we look at China during the Tongzhi Era and part of the reign of Guangxu. This period from 1875 to 1895 is more of the same for China. More humiliation at the hands of foreigners. More scrambling to modernize. More imperial skullduggery. More military defeats. By the time of China’s disastrous defeat after continue reading >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0

Greetings everyone and thanks for downloading this episode of the China History

1:00.2

Podcast. I'm your host once again Lhasla Montgomery I'm going to give it away right at the

1:05.9

beginning and say we're not going to finish off the Ching Dynasty in this sixth

1:10.3

installment of this overview. In fact I'm questioning now if I can even finish

1:15.0

them off in part seven. This one might go to eight. Anyway, we'll see next

1:19.1

week, but today we're loaded and jam-packed with historical events of such great impact and significance

1:25.2

that you could still feel the radiation today over a hundred years after these events

1:30.0

happened.

1:31.0

We are going to cover events that happen under two emperors today. First is the

1:35.4

Tongjir Emperor 1861, 1875. He was the son of Shenfung and his Manchu concubine Yehay Nara, who we know as

1:46.8

Zsuhi Taiho, Chinese history's most notorious Dowager Empress.

1:52.4

He's just a boy emperor and is gone by 1875 living only to the age of 18.

1:58.0

And then he's followed by his cousin who becomes the Guangshu Emperor, 1875 to 1908. Now this Guangshu Emperor who is known in

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