More than half of the 1,800 soldiers who serve at Taiping are indigenous, at least 40 of them from Jialan. "I encourage the youngsters from my tribe to join the army and brought many of them in ...

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 ...