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    The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion
    The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion
    The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion
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    The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion

    Written by Captivating History

    Narrated by Jason Zenobia

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    About this audiobook

    If you want to discover the captivating history of the Qing Dynasty, then pay attention...

    Succeeding the Ming dynasty in 1644, the Qing emperors managed to create one of the largest empires ever to exist in the territories of Asia and the fifth largest empire in the world. The Qing dynasty doubled the size of the Ming territory, but they also more than tripled its population, integrating not just Chinese but also Tibetans, Mongols, Burmese, Tai peoples, and the indigenous people of Taiwan, among others. The Qing dynasty governed this vast empire for nearly 300 years.

    In The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion, you will discover topics such as

    • The Fall of the Ming Dynasty
    • The Kangxi Emperor
    • Reign of Emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong
    • The Jahriyya Revolt, White Lotus Rebellion, and Eight Trigrams Uprising
    • The First Opium War
    • The Second Opium War
    • Taiping Rebellion
    • Self-Strengthening of China
    • Empress Dowager Cixi
    • Boxer Rebellion
    • The Last Emperor
    • And much, much more!

    So if you want to learn more about the history the Qing Dynasty, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaptivating History
    Release dateJan 8, 2020
    ISBN9781094223544
    The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion

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    • 2/5
      Hard to listen to. The narrator mangles the pronunciation of most names and places. I’m not even talking about tones, but common vowel sounds. Come on, it’s not that hard to learn the Chinese roman phoneticization system.

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    • 5/5
      Phenomenal read. Clear concise, rich and compelling. Particularly the tai ping rebellion and pu yi