This episode traces the unraveling of the Qing dynasty in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the Opium Wars and the Treaty of Nanking that ceded Hong Kong to the British, through the Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan and the rise of Empress Dowager Cixi, to the Boxer Rebellion and the 1911 Revolution. It closes with the abdication of the last emperor, Puyi, in 1912 and the Aisin Gioro family's later fate, including Feng Yuxiang's expulsion of Puyi from the Forbidden City in 1924. The story examines whether the collapse of the dynasty was inevitable or whether the Mandate of Heaven could have been restored.
More: https://thelineagearchive.com/dynasty/aisin-gioro-clan
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