Chinese History: 11 -- The Manchu Rule: Weng, Wango H. C

Creator: Weng Wango H. C Indiana University Bloomington

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by Wan-go Weng; Depicts the Manchu dynasty of Ch'ing (1644 to 1911 A.D.). Expansion of territories and long reigns were hallmarks of the early dynasty, and for the first time in Chinese history peace prevailed along the northern frontiers from Manchuria to Tibet. But population pressure, misrule, peasant uprisings, natural disasters, and finally challenges from the West, such as the so-called "Opium War" with Britain, defeated the regime

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