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[skywatcher]

Modern Chinese History 1840-2022: Every Month （with authentic BGM）

Major events that shape modern China——A Century of Great Turbulence
1.1840-1842 First Sino-Anglo War
2.1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
3.1856-1860 Second Sino-Anglo War
4.1856-1872 Panthay Rebellion
5.1862-1877 Dungan Revolt
6.1883-1885 Sino-French War
7.1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War
8.1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
9.1900 Siege of the International Legations
10.1911-1912 Abdication of China's last emperor and establishment of the Repulic of China(ROC)
11.1912-1927 War Lord Era
12.1927-1937 First Phase of Chinese Civil War
13.1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII
14.1945-1949 Second Phase of Chinese Civil War
15.1949 Establishment of the People's Republic of China(PRC) and retreat of the Repulic of China(ROC) to Taiwan

 

[SexyChineseLady]

How they do fireworks on Chinese New Year!

 

[skywatcher]

Major events that shape modern China——A Century of Great Turbulence
1.1840-1842 First Sino-Anglo War
2.1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
3.1856-1860 Second Sino-Anglo War
4.1856-1872 Panthay Rebellion
5.1862-1877 Dungan Revolt
6.1883-1885 Sino-French War
7.1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War
8.1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
9.1900 Siege of the International Legations
10.1911-1912 Abdication of China's last emperor and establishment of the Repulic of China(ROC)
11.1912-1927 War Lord Era
12.1927-1937 First Phase of Chinese Civil War
13.1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII
14.1945-1949 Second Phase of Chinese Civil War
15.1949 Establishment of the People's Republic of China(PRC) and retreat of the Repulic of China(ROC) to Taiwan

Major Events of Modern China(1840-1949)
1840-1842 First Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong island to Britain
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
Pseudo-Christian rebellion against Qing dynasty that critically rocked the foundation of the Qing dynasty
1851-1868 Nian Rebellion
Religious rebellion agianst Qing dynasty
1856-1860 Second Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Kowloon island to Britain and Outer Manchuria to Russia
1856-1872 Panthay Rebellion
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement
Radical top-down institutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1862-1877 Dungan Revolt
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1883-1885 Sino-French War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Vietnam to France
1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Korea and ceded Taiwan island to Japan
1898 Hundred Days' Reform
Short-lived bottom-up reform by constitutionalists
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Christian and anti-foreign movement
1900 Siege of the International Legations
Invasion of the Eleven-Nation Alliance(the United Kingdom, France, Russia, the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and the Netherlands) against the Qing dynasty
1900 Mutual Defense Pact of the Southeastern Provinces
Collective neutrality of southeastern provinces during the invasion of 11-nation alliance
1906-1911 Preparative Constitutionalism
Top-down constitutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution and abdication of China's last emperor
Revolutions that led to the establishment of the Republic of China(ROC) and the end of 2,132 years of Chinese monarchy(-221BC-1911)
1912-1928 War Lord Era
Power vaccum and destablization caused by the overthrow of the Qing dynasty
1928-1937 First Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP(Chinese Communist Party)
1931-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII
Nominal cease of fire between the ROC and the CCP and united front against Japanese invasion
1945-1949 Second Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP and retreat of the Republic of China(ROC) to Taiwan island
1949 Founding of the People's Republic of China(PRC)
A communist China was established by Mao Zedong

 

[skywatcher]

Major Events of Modern China(1840-1949)
1840-1842 First Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong island to Britain
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
Pseudo-Christian rebellion against Qing dynasty that critically rocked the foundation of the Qing dynasty
1851-1868 Nian Rebellion
Religious rebellion agianst Qing dynasty
1856-1860 Second Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Kowloon island to Britain and Outer Manchuria to Russia
1856-1872 Panthay Rebellion
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement
Radical top-down institutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1862-1877 Dungan Revolt
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1883-1885 Sino-French War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Vietnam to France
1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Korea and ceded Taiwan island to Japan
1898 Hundred Days' Reform
Short-lived bottom-up reform by constitutionalists
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Christian and anti-foreign movement
1900 Siege of the International Legations
Invasion of the Eleven-Nation Alliance(the United Kingdom, France, Russia, the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and the Netherlands) against the Qing dynasty
1900 Mutual Defense Pact of the Southeastern Provinces
Collective neutrality of southeastern provinces during the invasion of 11-nation alliance
1906-1911 Preparative Constitutionalism
Top-down constitutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution and abdication of China's last emperor
Revolutions that led to the establishment of the Republic of China(ROC) and the end of 2,132 years of Chinese monarchy(-221BC-1911)
1912-1928 War Lord Era
Power vaccum and destablization caused by the overthrow of the Qing dynasty
1928-1937 First Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP(Chinese Communist Party)
1931-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII
Nominal cease of fire between the ROC and the CCP and united front against Japanese invasion
1945-1949 Second Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP and retreat of the Republic of China(ROC) to Taiwan island
1949 Founding of the People's Republic of China(PRC)
A communist China was established by Mao Zedong

Since 1840, the Qing dynasty was on track of inevitable decline, when China was in a dead lock of repeated cycles of western invasions and internal rebellions, which forced the Qing dynasty to undertake radical reforms such as constitutional monarchy, which did not work and caused even more severe situations. The revolutionary republicans led by Dr.Sun Yat-sen(1866-1925) risked the chance to overthrow the monarchy by violence and managed to establish a parliamentary republic(ROC), which led to disastrous civil wars for nearly four decades that gave Japan a window of opportunity to invade in WWII, during which the CCP aided by Soviet Union leveraged an upper hand against ROC aided by US/UK and eventually led to a significant expansion of Communist Bloc in the East against the backdrop of Cold War.

 

[skywatcher]

Chinese Communist Music——[1939]Defend the Yellow River[4K]

Technically, this is not communist music considering the time of creation.

 

[skywatcher]

Chinese Folk Music——[1937] Seasons Song

Chinese Folk Music——[1955] Let Us Sway Twin Oars

 

[KurtisBrian]

Well got me to wikipedia list of Chinese wars.
Interesting that you choose to begin your list with a British Chinese war. That left out the conflicts with the Dutch, Russians, Portuguese and Sikhs that earlier. Must not fit with the narrative of everything being the fault of the British.
Tao and Taoists came from Asia. Maori Hakka chant is about a hairy man who brought the sun...Haka are a Chinese people. Original Blade Runner...Chinese guy saying, "I created the eyes." Likely those insane reaver yangs are the fault of the Chinese.
That Great Wall movie shows the Tao coming down upon China. Tough luck. Perhaps that millionaire party it up in California actor Matt Demon will save China but if it was me, I sure as h*ll wouldn't.

Major Events of Modern China(1840-1949)
1840-1842 First Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong island to Britain
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
Pseudo-Christian rebellion against Qing dynasty that critically rocked the foundation of the Qing dynasty
1851-1868 Nian Rebellion
Religious rebellion agianst Qing dynasty
1856-1860 Second Sino-Anglo War
Qing dynasty ceded Kowloon island to Britain and Outer Manchuria to Russia
1856-1872 Panthay Rebellion
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement
Radical top-down institutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1862-1877 Dungan Revolt
Islamic rebellion against Qing dynasty
1883-1885 Sino-French War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Vietnam to France
1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War
Qing dynasty lost suzerainty over Korea and ceded Taiwan island to Japan
1898 Hundred Days' Reform
Short-lived bottom-up reform by constitutionalists
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Christian and anti-foreign movement
1900 Siege of the International Legations
Invasion of the Eleven-Nation Alliance(the United Kingdom, France, Russia, the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and the Netherlands) against the Qing dynasty
1900 Mutual Defense Pact of the Southeastern Provinces
Collective neutrality of southeastern provinces during the invasion of 11-nation alliance
1906-1911 Preparative Constitutionalism
Top-down constitutional reforms by Qing dynasty
1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution and abdication of China's last emperor
Revolutions that led to the establishment of the Republic of China(ROC) and the end of 2,132 years of Chinese monarchy(-221BC-1911)
1912-1928 War Lord Era
Power vaccum and destablization caused by the overthrow of the Qing dynasty
1928-1937 First Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP(Chinese Communist Party)
1931-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII
Nominal cease of fire between the ROC and the CCP and united front against Japanese invasion
1945-1949 Second Phase of Chinese Civil War
Civil war between the ROC and the CCP and retreat of the Republic of China(ROC) to Taiwan island
1949 Founding of the People's Republic of China(PRC)
A communist China was established by Mao Zedong

 

[skywatcher]

Well got me to wikipedia list of Chinese wars.
Interesting that you choose to begin your list with a British Chinese war. That left out the conflicts with the Dutch, Russians, Portuguese and Sikhs that earlier. Must not fit with the narrative of everything being the fault of the British.
Tao and Taoists came from Asia. Maori Hakka chant is about a hairy man who brought the sun...Haka are a Chinese people. Original Blade Runner...Chinese guy saying, "I created the eyes." Likely those insane reaver yangs are the fault of the Chinese.
That Great Wall movie shows the Tao coming down upon China. Tough luck. Perhaps that millionaire party it up in California actor Matt Demon will save China but if it was me, I sure as h*ll wouldn't.

Epitaphs On the back of the Monument to the People's Heroes composed by Mao Zedong:
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past three years![1946-1949]

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past thirty years![1919-1949]

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who from 1840 laid down their lives in the many struggles against domestic and foreign enemies and for national independence and the freedom and well-being of the people![1840-1949]

 

[KurtisBrian]

Epitaphs On the back of the Monument to the People's Heroes composed by Mao Zedong:
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past three years![1946-1949]

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past thirty years![1919-1949]

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who from 1840 laid down their lives in the many struggles against domestic and foreign enemies and for national independence and the freedom and well-being of the people![1840-1949]

I understand. Mao only saw the first great defeat in China's most recent fall. He failed to understand the concept of death by a thousand bleeding cuts. Americans and the West understood this and long ago created the solution.

 

[skywatcher]

I understand. Mao only saw the first great defeat in China's most recent fall. He failed to understand the concept of death by a thousand bleeding cuts. Americans and the West understood this and long ago created the solution.

Mao believed communism is the only correct solution for entire humanity and other ideologies doom to fail in the long run. Based on the fundamental principles and practices of the Marxism–Leninism, he developed the theory what is now called Maoism. However, Deng derailed Mao's great unfinished cause.

Maoism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KurtisBrian]

Mao believed communism is the only correct solution for entire humanity and other ideologies doom to fail in the long run. Based on the fundamental principles and practices of the Marxism–Leninism, he developed the theory what is now called Maoism. However, Deng derailed Mao's great unfinished cause.View attachment 194661

Maoism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Eventually all things fail.
Economically, that is why communism and fascism exist. Capitalism goes poof. Then the commies or fascists take over. They make an even bigger mess. Then we first return to partial capitalism then to full capitalism in order to escape the idiocy of the other two. Eventually capitalism fails again. The retarded commies and fascists return. They once again make a HUGE mess and cause economic ruin. Result? We return to capitalism!

That is how our beautiful economic system works.
The real struggle is between commies and fascists as, during the time capitalism is reloading, they each try to gain control to become Mr. Big Fck Up.

Fascism we saw in Germany, Japan and Italy. Wow, not good. Big war and conquered, many killed, ended up mostly owned by foreigners.
Communism we saw in China, Russia, Cambodia, Vietnam....yikes complete nut bag, many killed. But not conquered and not owned by foreigners.

that is my opinion anyway.

 

[skywatcher]

World map according to China in 1799

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Hanikezi! She is the latest Uighur star in Chinese drama.

 

[KurtisBrian]

Hanikezi! She is the latest Uighur star in Chinese drama.


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history repeating. Han steal/conquer an area, botify everyone, take the women, next the local/native male lineages slowly disappear.

Wonder how often Han males have a hand on her head?

 

[SexyChineseLady]

history repeating. Han steal/conquer an area, botify everyone, take the women, next the local/native male lineages slowly disappear.

Wonder how often Han males have a hand on her head?

The Uighurs are actually Turkics from Mongolia who invaded the Tarim Basin during the Tang Dynasty. That area was a Chinese province since the Han Dynasty and were inhabited by Hans and Indo-Europeans called the Tocharians who were sinosized and used Chinese script along with Tocharian. They were Buddhists. The Turkic Uighurs absorbed the local Tocharian population and adopted Islam. Hans were in the Tarim Basin far before Uighurs.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Xilinnayi Gao! Considered by many to be the best female power vocal among the new generation of Chinese pop singers. Her mother is Uighur:

 

[SexyChineseLady]

This is Chen Zhouxuan, who was Xilinnayi Gao's band mate from the Bon Bon Girls 303 girl group:

Both Zhouxuan and Xilinnayi were both voted among two of the four best female singers in the new generation!

 

[SexyChineseLady]

Bon Bon Girls 303 disbanded in 2022:

But it counted among its members four of the top female vocalists in CPOP!

Along with Xilinnayi Gao and Chen Zhouxuan, there were Zheng Niaxin (Nene):

And Wang Yijin:

 

[KurtisBrian]

The Uighurs are actually Turkics from Mongolia who invaded the Tarim Basin during the Tang Dynasty. That area was a Chinese province since the Han Dynasty and were inhabited by Hans and Indo-Europeans called the Tocharians who were sinosized and used Chinese script along with Tocharian. They were Buddhists. The Turkic Uighurs absorbed the local Tocharian population and adopted Islam. Hans were in the Tarim Basin far before Uighurs.

The Han, a rice farming, city dwelling people were in the desert wasteland before the desert nomads? wow.

Han, ydna haplogroup O, is mostly found in the moist coastal areas of East and SE Asia.

Uyghur ydna haplogroups are mostly J and R. Israeli Cohens most common ydna haplogroup is J. Russians, Indians, Pakistani, Afghans, Western Europe all have a great many ydna haplogroup R males. Uyghurs claim descent from Xiongnu...like "Zion new" to me.

Matches nicely with the Israeli claims.
Israelis, Muslims, Catholics, Germanics, Greeks, Negroes are black/white/grey Tao.
Guess somebody is laying the ground work for a big Tao invasion of China, like in the Great Wall movie.
keep showing off captured women. Build that hatred.

 

[SexyChineseLady]

The Han, a rice farming, city dwelling people were in the desert wasteland before the desert nomads? wow.

Han, ydna haplogroup O, is mostly found in the moist coastal areas of East and SE Asia.

Uyghur ydna haplogroups are mostly J and R. Israeli Cohens most common ydna haplogroup is J. Russians, Indians, Pakistani, Afghans, Western Europe all have a great many ydna haplogroup R males. Uyghurs claim descent from Xiongnu...like "Zion new" to me.

Matches nicely with the Israeli claims.
Israelis, Muslims, Catholics, Germanics, Greeks, Negroes are black/white/grey Tao.
Guess somebody is laying the ground work for a big Tao invasion of China, like in the Great Wall movie.
keep showing off captured women. Build that hatred.

Hans since Han Dynasty were traders with deep penetration into Tarim Basin and further. The first great international trading route was the Silk Road. The Indo-European tribes allied with the Hans along the Silk Road were the Tocharians and related Yuehzhi who later created the Pathan empire in Pakistan.

The people closest to the original Tocharian in Xinjiang today are the people of Taxkorgan. They speak a Persian-related language not Turkic like Uighurs.