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 (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 ...
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 ...
This poster presents a quantitative study that investigates how the static, centralized and agrarian fiscal system of the Qing China was transformed into a responsive, decentralized and diverse one ...
Hong Xiuquan, who was a poor school teacher, sparked a religious uprising that nearly overthrew the crumbling Qing dynasty. (Wikipedia pic) Have you ever met someone whose ideas were so bizarre, the ...
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