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 ...

Hung-Sen-Tsuen, the originator and leader of the rebellion, who afterward styled himself the "Tien-Wans," or "Heavenly King," was the son of a small farmer who lived near the North River ...

It offers us new perspectives to understand the making of a modern fiscal state. It finds a positive link between the military conflicts during the Taiping Rebellion and the establishment and ...

History confirms the present, destructive militaristic culture of the US-led Atlantic alliance stands on the shoulders of ...

The Taiping rebellion promised to bring a kingdom of heavenly peace to China but actually led to one of the bloodiest civil wars in history, killing as many as 20 million people, according to some ...

Different faiths have coexisted more or less peacefully throughout Chinese history, with foreign religions accepted and later ...

This poster provides a detailed research design and its preliminary results on the topic of fiscal modernisation for Late Imperial China from 1850s to 1900s. It investigates the impact of Taiping ...

The garrison continued to serve its military functions through the 20th century. It was integral in extinguishing two major ...

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 ...

This reverses what has been called the “great divergence” in economic power and prosperity, which began with the 19th-century ...