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China's conflict with an aggressively expanding West in the 1800s, beginning with the demands made by England, through the British East India Company, at the end of the 1700s:.

In the 1800s and early 1900s, however, four key issues dominate China's history. a royal house of great prestige at home and abroad.a huge but basically contented population, and.Contemporary Chinese called the 18th century "unparalleled in history," when all aspects of culture flourished.In the 18th century under the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), founded by the invading Manchus,

the Chinese probably enjoyed a higher standard of living than any other people on earth.

the Chinese economy was still the most sophisticated and productive in the world, and.

China In the 16th century, under the Ming (1368-1644)