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China specialists Peter Perdue and Frederic Wakeman have both suggested, in separate publications, that the Qing were, in a way, victims of their own success. The period of Qing conquest, consolidation, and expansion had been exceedingly violent, with devastating wars that wracked East and Central Asia and corresponded with a significant decrease in China’s population. […]

HMS Volage and HMS Hyacinth confront Chinese war junks at Chuenpee, 3 November 1839. The British repulse the Chinese advance in the city. Today many prominent historians downplay the role of science in the rise of the West, and the topic has aroused considerable discussion. As usual most of this debate has focused on economic […]

Second Battle of Chuenpi. The Nemesis (right background) destroying Chinese war junks in Anson’s Bay The Nemesis and boats of the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne, and Starling destroying the Chinese war junks in Anson’s Bay, 7 January 1841. British forces advancing in Chuenpi. The storming of the forts and entrenchments of Chuenpee on 7 January 1841. […]