History of China from the 17th to the 20th Century

[MrTVintro]

I can never get over the "local scholar fails exams, proclaims himself Jesus Christs brother and causes civil war that kills millions"

[mgill]

As a Sikh myself, I am quite impressed you researched this topic deep enough to note the Sino-Sikh War (also known as the 'Dogra-Tibetan War'). It seems it was quite indirectly impactful in the long-term than I had realized. Fascinating video, well-done.

[zekechap]

Just in time for my sleep. I will remember nothing.

[jaredspencer]

Geez, how many times can a country casually lose 100, 000 people in skirmishes, marches, purges, or famines? Seems like they have to lose WW1 levels of people before it even gets noticed. What an awful time.

[bhthereaper]

Thank you for the well-researched longform compilation, making such a complex and confusing topic into a digestible format is a great contribution.

[behindbigm]

I fell asleep and woke up halfway through this

[outisnemo]

The Ming was not weak during the 16th century, it was simply docile, because the Emperors at the time (especially Jiajing) were not especially diligent rulers. They still had a very efficient bureaucracy that operated finely without the Emperor’s participation, the largest economy on the planet, and maintained a slight technological edge against other civilizations. The 1550 Mongol invasion, for example, did not “sack Beijing”, but instead sacked the rural outskirts of Beijing (Beijing itself was safely walled up, and the Emperor Jiajing, who knew the Mongols were sacking outside the city wall, did not even care to do anything about it). Later in 1592, Jiajing’s grandson Wanli was able to send large Chinese armies to Korea to assist in defending Korea against a Japanese invasion, and eventually drive the Japanese out of Korea in 1598. So, if the Portuguese or Spanish tried to pull a Cortes or Pizarro in China at the time, I think they would probably loose. I mean even a weak Ming dynasty was far more technologically and militarily capable than the Aztecs and Incas.

[mingbinli]

This is one of the best historical summary of the Qing Dynasty, fresh perspectives and very detailed but concise. Wonderful video but to the uninitiated the story may be difficult to follow.

[Matteus]

Seriously, how the f*** did this country ever reach a billion people? It's the Hunger Games over there.

[sword_god]

Jabzy: "Here is an entire history of China from the 17th to 20th century"
Youtube: "This is a video about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, click this link to get some more context"

[LibertyScholar]

Love all the work you put into this. But, would it be possible for you to add chapters to this video? It'd be really helpful when I come back for rewatches to reference specific points. Also helps with the algorithm.

[FF-leps]

China gameplay: 🏭🏭💥😵, 9️⃣9️⃣6️⃣
China lore:

[TheEmiljoergensen]

thank you for yet another amazing piece.
just wanted to thank you also for adding more and more pointers to geography, time markers, writings of names etc., makes a massive difference to my being able to follow the condense and fast pace, which enables you to summarize so much in relatively short time, it's very, very impressive I have to say.
thank you for continously peaking my interest further. absolutely one of the best history youtubers, and i follow quiiiite a few :)

[Ken-izkf]

Han becoming Manchu isn't all that complicated if you consider both them as civic identities rather than ethnicities. In fact, some of the Manchu clans were formed by the descendants of Ming Colonists in Manchuria, so even before the founding of the Qing Empire, the later Jin forces were already communicating in old Mandarin.

Before the modern idea of nationalism was introduced to China, "Han" was basically an amalgamation of different cultures under one banner. There were quite a few instances of Turkic, Tungustic, and Tibetic peoples who integrated into the cultures of the Sinitic core and became "Han".

Also, I want to point out the Han population was not barred from Manchuria until late into Qianlong's rule (Around the 1780s). The Qing wanted to revitalize the Manchu language and culture, which was already functionally extinct at this point since most of the population had moved to the Sinitic core and were at that point Sinicised. Of course, this law was only perfunctory enforced. And there was no reason for anyone to migrate to Manchuria, unlike the depopulated Xinjiang post-Dzungaria war, because the latter was a gateway to the silk road trade and other strategic importances, while the former was a gate way to nowhere.

[isbestlizard]

An antique opium chest would make a cool coffee table - if they were importing tens of thousands a year some must have survived?

[brokoblin]

Chinese history is ridiculously interesting, not covered enough. Good job!

[lapis.lazuli.]

Congrats @Jabzy for bringing the quality content

[tobiasfan]

this is amazing and deserves way more than 6k likes. thanks for such in-depth content, PLEASE keep it up

[quentonmillstid]

Perfect to fall asleep to # monotone # dry # highschoolhistoryclassvibes

[maksimmakarov]

Спасибо Яндекс переводчику за то, что я могу посмотреть это 3-х часовое видео и не расплавить мозги мысленно переводя.