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Dr. Dan Barish returns to the podcast to discuss how teachers should teach about the late Qing Dynasty in China.  Dan is an Associate Professor of History and the Undergraduate Program Director at Baylor University.   First, he explains that teachers should begin their discussion about the decline of the Qing in the late 18th century and focus on internal problems that resulted from imperial expansion rather than external threats such as western intervention during the Opium War and the unequal Treaty of Nanjing.   The Qing, he argues, were adept at navigating around these problematic dealings with the west.  Rather than external challenges, he suggests that teachers should emphasize internal threats like the White Lotus and Taiping Rebellions of the 19th century.  To subdue these rebellions the Qing had to empower local leaders which led to a loss of centralized power.  Third, he shares that the wave of global revolutionary movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided various ideologies that contributed to anti-QIng movements.  While these ideologies were varied, they contributed to a broad coalition of activists who opposed the Qing empire.

Lesson Plans and resources:

The Decline of the Qing Empire lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4c03tK7

Internal Challenges in the Qing Empire lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4bFsOaN

Credits

Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org

Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn.

Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman.

Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales.

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