Remarkably, China was also struck by what’s been called the bloodiest civil war in human history less than a century before the guns of WW2 fell silent: the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864).

Focusing on Cangzhou 滄州, I examine how capital region communities memorialized the northern chapter of the Taiping Civil War, even as for the rest of the empire, the war remained unfinished until 1864 ...

PRESENTER:'The greatest of them, the Taiping. PRESENTER:'In the 1840s, China was still the greatest state on Earth, 'but the first opium war had left the government weakened. PRESENTER:'They'd ...

Late Imperial China: the relationship between Chinese popular literatures and popular religions; popular novels, short stories, dramas, and their oral antecedents; publication history and print ...

Taiping, which means “everlasting peace” in Chinese, was established in 1874 following the end of the Larut War, to mark the peace between warring tin mining groups. Back then, Taiping was a ...

The Taiping Rebellion was a Christian millenarian ... eventually had to intervene to help the Qing restore order. The war had a lasting impact on the economic and social systems, and a million ...

‘Taiping’ is also often used to refer to the ... People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much harm and China’s defeat by Japan in the ...