MING TO QING

END OF THE MING

• The Ming =brilliant period – quick decline– technologically lagging, culturally strong– Agricultural distress, migration, disease– Strikes, decline in silver prices – inflation hit hard– Japan invaded Korea – Ming asked MANCHU’S to

help defeat them…

– MANCHU BECOME QING

QING

• Manchu: but very diverse population• Repaired roads, fixed economy, more trade• Adapted Chinese customs, traditions,

practices

KANGXI

• CHILD-EMPEROR

• Willing to incorporate ideas, technologies from other areas

• Relied on Jesuit expertise, intelligence

QING TRADE

• Europe wanted anything Qing (wallpaper!) – exchanged for SILVER and very few E. goods

• Qing wanted to regulate contact with Europe – only had 1 port open at Canton

• Britain wanted more trade - tea is popular: Macartney mission was a fiasco… OPIUM

BEGINNING OF THE QING END

• Population explosion – demand for rice & wheat …deforestation, environmental deterioration – dikes/dams were not kept up

• Impoverished people

• Qing: too large and too expensive to maintain, population growth and transport of food =need to invest in agriculture = limited new industries