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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Of the many who worked as missionaries in China in the 19th century, one whose work had a particularly enduring character was ...

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 ...

He referred to himself as “The Husbandman of the River Hsiang.” In 1850, a civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion broke out ...

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 ...

There have been peasant revolts galore. But except for two Chinese revolts in the nineteenth century--the Taiping Rebellion, in midcentury, and the Boxer Rebellion, at the century's end ...