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Hong Rengan (Chinese: 洪仁玕; pinyin: Hóng Réngān; Wade–Giles: Hung Jen-kan; 20 February 1822 – 23 November 1864) was an important leader of the Taiping Rebellion. He was a distant cousin of the movement's founder and spiritual leader Hong Xiuquan.
Hong Rengan was a leader of the Taiping Rebellion, the great uprising that occupied South China between 1850 and 1864. He tried to reorganize the Taiping movement by introducing Western ideas of government and religion. Hong Rengan was a cousin and neighbour of Hong Xiuquan, the supreme Taiping.
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In 1859, Hong Rengan, Hong Xiuquan's cousin, joined the Taiping forces in Nanjing and was given considerable power by Hong. Hong Rengan developed an ambitious plan to expand the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's boundaries.
Aug 25, 2022 · Hong Rengan was one of the earliest converts, but he was cut off from the main Taiping group early and he had to run away to British Hong Kong to survive the Qing purges of Taiping supporters and sympathizers.
Dream of Chinese Christendom: Hong Rengan and the Taiping Religion (1859-1864) | MA/MSc in International and World History. Advisors: Hang Nguyen (Columbia), Ronald Po (LSE)
Dec 10, 2020 · In 1859 Hong Rengan—a cousin of Xiuquan, and one of his earliest recruits—seized control of the movement and set out to modernize its government along Western democratic lines.
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Jul 7, 2020 · Hong Rengan devised a plan to retake Shanghai by first drawing off Qing forces besieging Nanjing and taking the surrounding cities of Hangzhou and Suzhou. He gave Li Xiucheng, who by this time had emerged as the most important Taiping military commander, the duty of capturing Shanghai.
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