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