museverb [ I ] uk â /mjuËz/ us â /mjuËz/ formal. âº to think about something carefully and for a long time: I began to muse about/on the possibility of starting my own business. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words.
The Qing Dynasty also known as Manchu dynasty was the last dynasty in the Chinese history. It began during the fall of the 276 year old Ming dynasty in 1644 and ended in 1912 though it was attempted to be restored to no avail in 1917. The end of Qing dynasty was known as the beginning of the Republic of China.
By the time the Boxer Rebellion happened, the Qing was already dead. As one Meiji Japanese diplomat said: The Qing Empire should have died with the Taiping Rebellion, as per the natural cycle of dynastic changes and shifting of the mandate of heaven, but thanks to foreign intervention, the Qing Empire existed as a zombie state for another half century and delaying the inevitable modernization of China.