China: Imperialism, Opium War, and Self-Strengthening

, a decade-long anti-Manchu/anti-Qing rebellion and civil war, seeks to kick out the “foreign” power of the Qing Dynasty. It resulted in more deaths than any other civil war in history – up to 40 million. The internal chaos in China continued and no centralized effort to Westernize can take hold. 1894-1895. ................
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