The Taiping Rebellion was mostly a revolt by poor rural peasants against their landlords and the rich; inspired by the religious pamphlets of an American missionary. Hong, the leader, spent years ...

It finds a positive link between the military conflicts during the Taiping Rebellion and the establishment and persistence of the autonomous indirect taxation systems on the local level.

The truth is that for every Chinese rebellion which succeeds, there are scores which fail - like the Taiping rebellion, led by a man influenced by Christian missionaries, who declared a heavenly ...

But shift your gaze east, and you’ll discover that China was in the throes of its own civil war, the Taiping Rebellion, which lasted from 1850 to 1864. This interactive history map connects ...

China had a long history of rebellions and civil wars, and the Taiping Rebellion is one of the worst, ranking number four on ...

All of the treaties were very damaging to the Qing. The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) is another example of the things that were going wrong for the Qing. The Taiping Rebellion was a religious ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from SGS Taipings The game recreates the Taïping Rebellion (1851-64), the deadliest Chinese civil war, costing the lives of millions. Play the Taïping ...

However, the garden ended up taking some hits, enduring both British occupation during the Opium Wars and again by the French during the Taiping Rebellion. Despite the turmoil, the garden remained ...