qing dynasty

In my quest to create an alternate timeline where the Qing Dynasty successfully modernized and became a constitutional monarchy, one of the biggest obstacles was weather or not I wanted the dynasty to last until the present day or collapse later than it actually did. Ultimately, I struck an...

Let's say the Qing dynasty comes to an end in the 19th century or earlier and is replaced by another dynasty. What might this dynasty look like? And would it have any better luck dealing with the Western world and Japan?

Construction of this magnificent palace would begin in 1900 and last up to 1910. The overall design is influenced by the Xiyang Lou, the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, and the Royal Palace of Naples, creating a unique mix of Italian Baroque architecture and Chinese...

how successful would a qing invasion of japan be in 1830 just before opium wars with preperations since 1800 ?

1875 - 1887: Prince Gong as Prince Regent In 1875, shortly after the accession of the Guangxu Emperor, Empress Dowager Cixi becomes severely ill from liver problems and dies. This left Empress Dowager Ci'an by herself, so she reappoints Prince Gong as Prince Regent to rule by her side. Using...

POD 1700 Peter I Starts the colonization of Alaska Elizabeth lives longer to destroy Prussia and gets pomerania connect Russia to Atlantic North Sea via her successor Peter III's duchies of schleswig and holstein giving Russia's first warm water port in an ocean She doesn't help French...

Lately, as I've been revisiting my interest in a German influenced Qing Dynasty, I've decided to explore the subject of cultural diffusion. Inspiration for this subject came from a time I ate a sandwich from a Vietnamese vendor and learning about how baguettes were introduced during French...

I like to believe that if the Qing Dynasty did become a constitutional monarchy, the German Empire's model would have been more suitable for them. That way, the emperor could still wield actual executive power. I have been able to find an English translation of the German constitution to serve...

If the Qing are ambitious enough, the liners could be built to rival those by Cunard, White Star Line, and Hamburg America Line. Perhaps they could even be four funnel-liners.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Mughal Empire and the Qing dynasty were two of the greatest powers in Asia. By the end of the 19th, however, the former had been dissolved by the British, while the latter was a shell of its former self and little more than a decade from itself being...

Let's say a major anti-Qing rebellion that's not as crazy as the Taiping Rebellion erupts sometime in the 19th century. What kind of foreign support could it get?

What would be the effects of it? How much would it change the world? Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)

The Woosung Road, a passenger railway that was located in what is now Shanghai, was the first of its kind to be built on Chinese soil and was quite successful during its short existence. Unfortunately, its construction was marred by controversy due to it being controlled by a foreign company...

The First Sino-Japanese War, which confirmed the transition of the Empire of Japan from what was once an isolated country to one of the great powers of the world, was a closer affair than the numbers suggest. At the Battle of the Yalu River, for example, four Japanese cruisers were severely...

To help the Qing government put down the Taiping Rebellion, a Hunanese official named Zeng Guofan raised the Xiang Army, a massive force from his home province completely loyal to him. By the time the rebellion was crushed, the Qing dynasty had almost no military force left, and relied almost...

Your challenge is to make the China able to pull out major socio-political reforms on par with the Meiji Restoration IOTL and soon gained the status of a major regional power, while the Japanese monarchy goes into decline and eventually became divided between spheres of influence between China...

The best way to describe the palace, which is named after the Qianlong Emperor, is that the front looks like the Haiyantang from the Old Summer Palace, but three stories tall. From an areal view, you can see some design elements taken from the Berlin Palace of in terms of locations of the...

For those concerned about, Empress Dowager Cixi, let's say that in 1875, shortly after the accession of the Guangxu Emperor, she becomes severely ill from liver problems and then dies.

In early 19th century China, a young Hakka man named Hong Xiuquan sought to become a scholar-official. On four separate occasions, he attempted the imperial examinations, failing each time. After the fourth failure, he read some Christian pamphlets and believed they held the key to understanding...

Is an alliance between Qing China and Tsarist Russia possible after the First Sino-Japanese War? Are there possible PODs starting in 1896 that could bring China into the arms of the Entente?