Asian Spring (Napoleon's World)

The Asian Spring was a massive protest movement across much of East Asia between 2012-2014, particularly notable for bringing down communist governments in Siam (where it began) and Vietnam in the spring of 2012, before ballooning across the region. In some countries, it led only to reforms - in other places, the Asian Spring's demands for liberal democracy brought down non-communist autocratic governments in Burma, Assam, and most notably China, where in early 2013 the Qing Emperors abdicated, triggering mass violence that some have called a civil war. The Asian Spring is part of the broader "Spring of Nations," as it has been described, with similar mass protests spreading across Africa and even Europe, where it led to the collapse of monarchism in many countries and the fall of the French Empire in what has been called the "European Spring."