The Taiping Rebellion took the lives of more than 20 million Chinese people. It was fought between 1850 and 1864 and is also ...

He explores the background to the revolt - the defeat in the Opium War, and rural poverty. The Taiping Rebellion was mostly a revolt by poor rural peasants against their landlords and the rich ...

He referred to himself as “The Husbandman of the River Hsiang.” In 1850, a civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion broke out between the forces of Hong Xiuquan and the governing Qing Dynasty.

The Taiping Rebellion was a Christian millenarian movement ... eventually had to intervene to help the Qing restore order. The war had a lasting impact on the economic and social systems, and ...

The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864 ... People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much harm and China’s defeat by Japan in the Sino-Japanese ...

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 ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

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.

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 ...