The Taiping Rebellion was mostly a revolt by poor rural peasants against their landlords and the rich; inspired by the religious pamphlets of an American missionary. Hong, the leader, spent years ...

"Horrible atrocities in China. (From a Correspondent.) Canton, Sept. 12th, 1855. As you are the depicter of events passing in the nineteenth century, I send you herewith a sketch in connection with ...

All of the treaties were very damaging to the Qing. The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) is another example of the things that were going wrong for the Qing. The Taiping Rebellion was a religious ...

The Nian Rebellion (1851-1869) in the east and north of China had ties to a Buddhist sect, while the Taiping Rebellion in the south was led by a man who claimed to be the recipient of divine ...

However, the garden ended up taking some hits, enduring both British occupation during the Opium Wars and again by the French during the Taiping Rebellion. Despite the turmoil, the garden remained ...