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 ...

The Nian Rebellion (1851-1869) in the east and north of China had ties to a Buddhist sect, while the Taiping Rebellion in the south was led by a man who claimed to be the recipient of divine ...

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 ...