#314 - Qing 45: The Big Squeeze
December 15, 2025
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Episode 314 · December 15, 2025
#314 - Qing 45: The Big Squeeze
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Summary
The Qing Empire did not collapse because it stopped working. It collapsed because it kept working — just barely — under pressures that compounded faster than reform could relieve them...
Time Period Covered:
~1790s-1840s CE
Major Works Cited:
Jones, Susan Mann and Philip A. Kuhn. “Dynastic Decline and the Roots of Rebellion.” The Cambridge History of China, vol. 10: Late Ch’ing, 1800–1911, Part I
Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864.
Pomeranz, Kenneth, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy.
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