The assertion comes as military confrontations and territorial disputes in the ... Taiwan, which controls two islands in the ...

In 1853, a Taiping army infiltrated North China, threatening Beijing and the Qing dynasty itself. Though this army never reached Beijing, its northern siege had acute and lasting impacts on ...

with an army of 100,000 men, was installed as Emperor in Nanjing. China had two governments - one traditional [the Qing, in Beijing] the other revolutionary, in Nanjing. The Taiping rebels created ...

The garrison continued to serve its military functions through the 20th century. It was integral in extinguishing two major uprisings during the Ming Dynasty, in 1458 and 1622 and the Taiping ...