Talk:Long live the Qing!

This was my take on an alternative China as a World Power- though it is very unlikely that China would have conducted reforms like in Meiji Japan, the outlook of a strong Qing dynasty is quite interesting... There are still some issues to be clarified (suggestions and critiscisms are welcome): - cultural phenomena (widespread Anti-Manchu racism) - major uprisings (Taiping Tianguo, Yihetuan) - the monarchy at the brink of its collapse - China loses the Opium War, but because there was no humiliating defeat, the British agree on much more generous terms and do not legalise Opium trade; no cession of Hongkong, etc. ... - Industrialisation of China in the early 1830s - Qing China vs. the other great powers of the Far East (Tsarist Russia and Japan) - Separatist uprisings in nations dependant from the Qing regime - Democratic movements inspired by the revolutions of 1848; socialism starts earlier in China - Conflicts between old Confucian ethics and Western thought - Weakening of Qing government