The Taiping Rebellion and its self-proclaimed messiah threatened the Qing dynasty's hold on China as the nation battled Europe in the Opium Wars. ... The Taiping leader Hong Xiuquan was a Hakka, ...

Hong Xiuquan, who led the 19th Century Taiping rebellion, showed Communists a peasant uprising was still possible in the modern age.

The Taiping Rebellion was an unfinished revolution Lau Guan Kim Updated: 2004-09-03 10:12. ... On a personal side, one just wonders if Hong Xiuquan had not failed his Imperial Exam, ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.In 1850 a Chinese Christian convert, Hong Xiuquan, proclaimed himself leader of a new dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The last great English-language history of the 19th-century Taiping Rebellion — one of the bloodiest uprisings the world has ever seen — was published in 1996. China, at the time, was slowly ...

Religious movements often spring up. In Malaysia, followers of the Teacher worship the Creator. One such movement saw 20 million Chinese die Recently, on the sad occasion of the death of a friend ...

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 ...

Hong Xiuquan, who led the 19th Century Taiping rebellion, showed Communists a peasant uprising was still possible in the modern age.

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