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 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 ...

It investigates the impact of Taiping Rebellion on the emergence of autonomous local commercial taxation.

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 ...