What is the longest that the Ch'ing Dynasty of China could have realistically survived?

A victory over Japan could keep it going some more years, maybe even until Puji is old enough to ascend the throne, but would that be enough to stabilize it? I have my doubts.
 
The Qing Dynasty outlived its welcome. 1911 was far too late. The Dynasty should have fallen in the 1850s or 1860s as it was a big zombie then...even Meiji Japanese diplomats viewed things this way. Qing Dynasty was terrible for China.
 
A victory over Japan could keep it going some more years, maybe even until Puji is old enough to ascend the throne, but would that be enough to stabilize it? I have my doubts.
There were signs that he may not have been a capable leader but we cannot easily know how he would have turned out.
 
With constitutional monarch, it could last until 1916 due to Japanese actions.

In 1915, Japan sent 21 demands. If Qing accepted these demands, it would lost its popularity. The revolt would start.

If Qing rejected the demand and fought with Japanese, Qing would lost and accept new 21 demands with harsher terms. The revolt would start.

Or Japanese politician and military leaders decided that it was in their best interest to keep Qing government. They didn't push forward with 21 demands in 1915. Qing might last until 1931 when Mukden incident occurred. Public would get sick and tire of this weak government, who were unable to stand up and fight Japanese. Revolt would start.
 
There were signs that he may not have been a capable leader but we cannot easily know how he would have turned out.
Dont know about that... most of his life he spent as a drugged up prisoner with foreign guards close by to do unpleasant things to him when necessary, anyone would go nuts living like that, it's rather miraculous that he survived that long. By the standards of Chinese emperors he looks fairly normal... the bad ones used to do stuff like burry themselves with hundreds of living concubines or murder the children of officials and force them to eat them in the imperial court.
 
Dont know about that... most of his life he spent as a drugged up prisoner with foreign guards close by to do unpleasant things to him when necessary, anyone would go nuts living like that, it's rather miraculous that he survived that long. By the standards of Chinese emperors he looks fairly normal... the bad ones used to do stuff like burry themselves with hundreds of living concubines or murder the children of officials and force them to eat them in the imperial court.
The further the dynasty went on, the worse these consequences of imperial upbringing would be and Puyi's upbringing was, as you say, severely out of touch. Though he may or may not have turned out a tad stronger in character than some before him, he never displayed any exceptional qualities that might have helped him to rise above the limitations imposed upon him and set the Qing on a course that might allow them to continue much farther than an additional five to ten years into the 20th century.
 
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