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MING TO QING

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…

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MING TO QING

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  1. MING TO QING

  2. 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

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

  4. KANGXI • CHILD-EMPEROR • Willing to incorporate ideas, technologies from other areas • Relied on Jesuit expertise, intelligence

  5. 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

  6. 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

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