AHC: Have Yakub Beg's government survive

CaliGuy

Banned
AHC: Have Yakub Beg's government in Xinjiang survive instead of having Xinjiang be reconquered by China in the 1870s (or later).
 
Have some kind of internal conflict (preferably in China proper) that ties the Qing government's hands, preventing them from reconquering Xinjiang/East Turkestan. The Qing lose this conflict, leading to their collapse or at least severe weakening. The Qing/whoever replaces them are too weak to try to conquer anywhere, and by the time they are strong again,Yakub Beg or his successors have got some powerful foreign ally (Preferably Britain or Russia)
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Have some kind of internal conflict (preferably in China proper) that ties the Qing government's hands, preventing them from reconquering Xinjiang/East Turkestan. The Qing lose this conflict, leading to their collapse or at least severe weakening. The Qing/whoever replaces them are too weak to try to conquer anywhere, and by the time they are strong again,Yakub Beg or his successors have got some powerful foreign ally (Preferably Britain or Russia)
How do you create such a conflict after the crushing of the Taiping Rebellion, though?
 
How do you create such a conflict after the crushing of the Taiping Rebellion, though?
The Qing were resented due to their Manchu heritage, so maybe have some sort of nationalist movement aiming for Ming restoration appear.
 
How do you create such a conflict after the crushing of the Taiping Rebellion, though?

There were other contemporaneous rebellions weren't there, some of which outlasted the Taiping? Nian and Miao? Any way to make them more virulent/a greater drain on Qing resources?
 

CaliGuy

Banned
There were other contemporaneous rebellions weren't there, some of which outlasted the Taiping? Nian and Miao? Any way to make them more virulent/a greater drain on Qing resources?
You'll have to ask a Chinese history expert this question; unfortunately I myself don't meet this criteria.
 
Did nationalism reach China on a large scale yet by the 1870s, though?

There were some vaguely nationalistic, anti-Manchu sentiments to the Taiping and other 19th century rebellions (many of which also had strong ethnic identities, the Taiping drawing much of the support from the Hakka to which Jesus' Chinese Brother belonged), though that's arguably more "hatred of the Manchu as a ruling political class" rather than "hatred of the Manchu as an ethnic group".
 

CaliGuy

Banned
There were some vaguely nationalistic, anti-Manchu sentiments to the Taiping and other 19th century rebellions (many of which also had strong ethnic identities, the Taiping drawing much of the support from the Hakka to which Jesus' Chinese Brother belonged), though that's arguably more "hatred of the Manchu as a ruling political class" rather than "hatred of the Manchu as an ethnic group".
OK; understood.

Also, though, any successful rebellion will likely need to win large-scale Han Chinese support; after all, you can't win if a large part of the population isn't willing to support you.
 
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