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Taiping Rebellion, (1850–64) Large-scale rebellion against the Qing dynasty and the presence of foreigners in China. The peasants, having suffered floods and famines in the late 1840s, were ripe for rebellion, which came under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan.
The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted by an army and civil administration inspired by Hakka, self-proclaimed mystics named Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing.
The 1800s were no different. What was striking, however, was the kind of rebellion that occurred and the extent of the upheavals. No other event devastated China as much in the 19th century as the Taiping (pronounced tie-ping) Rebellion (1850-64). It was sparked by the leadership of one man, Hong Xiuquan (pronounced shiou-chuan), from the south ...
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu -led Qing dynasty and the Hakka -led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted for 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of Nanjing —which they had renamed "Tianjing"—in 1864.
Nov 20, 2014 · Open Transcript. A real turning point moment for the last dynasty of China, the Qing, was the Taiping War from the early 1850s up to 1864. It was, quite possibly, the single bloodiest civil war ever in history. We don't have exact figures, but we know that tens of millions of people were killed during the course of the decade and half of this war.
Dec 10, 2020 · December 10, 2020. • 10 min read. Failure of a civil service exam led to one of the most important political events in Chinese history: the Taiping Rebellion. This social and spiritual upheaval...
Jul 7, 2020 · Definition. This essay explores the historical, social, and political background to the Taiping Rebellion waged in China from 1850 to 1864 between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It examines the motivations and goals of the leadership of the revolutionary movement, and its central ideology.
