Taiping

Someone said that he had a first wife – a marriage that his parents arranged for him in Taiping, another small town about a half hour drive from Kuala Kangsar.

Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

Someone said that he had a first wife – a marriage that his parents arranged for him in Taiping, another small town about a half hour drive from Kuala Kangsar.

Stories about Syed Sharon Bakar 2005

The most important domestic event in China, in recent times, is the _ "Taiping" - rebellion_, which broke out in 1850, in Southern

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping - if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

But I know right from wrong, as perhaps only a scoundrel can, and I'll say that there was great virtue in the notion of Taiping — if it hadn't somehow been jarred sideways, and become a perversion, so that the farther it went, the farther it ran off the true.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"Between them, Lee and the Tien Wang will destroy the" Taiping, "says he slowly," unless I can prevent them.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"Between them, Lee and the Tien Wang will destroy the" Taiping, "says he slowly," unless I can prevent them.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"Between them, Lee and the Tien Wang will destroy the" Taiping, "says he slowly," unless I can prevent them.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times.

The Battle for China's Soul Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2012