For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated ...
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history. At least 20 million people perished in this 14-year civil war between a peasant army led by a pseudo-religious ...
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How China’s century of humiliation took shape
For centuries, China stood among the world’s most influential powers, but the 1800s brought a devastating shift. This video ...
The Taiping Rebellion, from the perception of its leader, could erroneously be regarded as a cult movement. In the events that followed, it became more a mass movement of the Chinese people akin to a ...
THE Taiping rebellion, which was imagined to be opening China to Christianity, and which promised at one time to revolutionize the empire, grew out of the contact with foreigners and the loss of ...
Stephen Platt, an American historian, has won the $75,000 US Cundill Prize in History, for his book giving a gripping account of China’s 19th century Taiping Rebellion. Stephen Platt won the $75,000US ...
A new body of research is examining historical calamities like the Black Death and the Taiping Rebellion to better understand their role in development. Three key features of society are necessary for ...
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