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The roots of Opium A were in a commercial dispute between the British and the Chinese. At the beginning of the 19th century, trade in Chinese products such as tea, silk and porcelain was extremely lucrative for British traders. The problem was that the Chinese would not buy British products in return. They would only sell their products in exchange for silver.
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It was a civil war with great religious and social connotations, that happened in China, in which the imperial forces of the Qing Dynasty and the Celestial Kingdom faced, that occupied important zones of the south of China.
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Conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the nascent Empire of Japan, for the control of Korea. After more than six months of uninterrupted victories of both, China requested peace.
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Anti-imperialist, anticolonial and anti-Christian uprising in China, towards the end of the Qing dynasty. Motivated by protonationalist sentiments and by opposition to Western colonialism and Christianity that was associated with it.
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Conflict over rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan in Manchuria and Korea. The area where this affection was around the Liaodong peninsula and Mukden, the seas of Korea and Japan and the Yellow Sea.
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Political weakness of Manchu dynasty intensified with the dead of the Emperor and the succession of Pu-Yi
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Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China. The revolution was called Xinhai.
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Demands made by Japan to China, where the opportunity for alliance was seized, Japan presented to China a secret ultimatum, created to give Japan the regional predominance over China.
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Period where China where the control of the country was divided between the old military forces, which spread through the continental regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan and Xinjiang.
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Students of Beijing protesting against the Treaty of Versailles allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong that had been delivered by Germany.
