"Horrible atrocities in China. (From a Correspondent.) Canton, Sept. 12th, 1855. As you are the depicter of events passing in the nineteenth century, I send you herewith a sketch in connection with ...

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 ...

Finally, in 1864, aided by Britain and the other Western Powers and modern weapons, the Qing were able to re-conquer Nanjing and finally defeat the Taiping Rebellion and reunite China. This short ...

These stories all start with the Chinese diaspora. The Taiping Rebellion was the greatest upheaval of 19th-century China (as well as the bloodiest civil war in history). It caused massive ...

The Taiping Rebellion was a religious movement and rebellion that devastated southern China. ‘Taiping’ is also often used to refer to the followers of the movement. The leader of the uprising ...

China wars often stemmed from internal revolts ... During this time, almost 25 million people died in the hostilities. The Taiping Rebellion was a Christian millenarian movement aimed at unseating ...

This poster provides a detailed research design and its preliminary results on the topic of fiscal modernisation for Late Imperial China from 1850s to 1900s. It investigates the impact of Taiping ...

Spence advocates democracy in China and presents contemporary views ... history,"" Spence recounts the mid-19th century Taiping Rebellion, in which a Chinese Christian fanatic seized Nanking ...