PRESENTER:'It's a question faced by all China's revolutionaries, 'and what they did, in some ways ... and rural poverty. The Taiping Rebellion was mostly a revolt by poor rural peasants against ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Why did this system suddenly collapse in 1911 ... 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 ...

It investigates the impact of Taiping Rebellion on the emergence of autonomous local commercial taxation.