Taipings

The rebels now became known as Taipings, after a town of that name in Kwangsi province.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

The Taipings were a Christian-inspired movement founded in Guangxi by Hong Xiuquan (1813–64) and Feng Yunshan (1832–62).

1851-61 2001

Nanking, the site of the treaty that ended the First Opium War in 1842, had also served as the capital of the Taipings.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The Taipings are represented as a cipher -- just an irrational uprising of millions of passive followers.

Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009

The Taipings are represented as a cipher -- just an irrational uprising of millions of passive followers.

Marx and the Taipings Daniel Little 2009

Elizabeth Perry's Challenging the Mandate of Heaven is also an excellent piece of scholarship that touches upon the Taipings and focuses on China's history of rebellions.

Marx and the Taipings Daniel Little 2009

During the middle and later years of the nineteenth century, the Manchus were temporarily bolstered by their defeat of the Taipings, but as the century drew to a close, a conflict with Japan over Korea escalated into a war, which was won by the Japanese in 1895.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

UnderstandingSociety: Marx and the Taipings skip to main

Marx and the Taipings Daniel Little 2009

"If China's economic reforms don't succeed, there could be a lot more phenomena reminiscent of the Taipings," warns William Overholt, executive director of Nomura in Hong Kong.

Apocalypse When 2008

On arriving in Shanghai on the Susquehanna, they received the uncertain intelligence that the Taipings had successfully captured the city of Nanjing and proclaimed it their capital.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005