Taiping Rebellion
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The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in late imperial China between the Qing dynasty and the rebel Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflic
Top: The Battle of Anqing (1861), 1884 painting Bottom: A battle on the Yangtze between Qing and Taiping naval forces
Regaining the Provincial City Anqing 2
An alleged drawing of Hong Xiuquan, dating from around the early 1850s
Qing troops retaking Suzhou
Hong Xiuquan
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Hong Xiuquan, born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping He
Taiping Rebellion
…the Qing ultimately defeated the rebellion, the victory came at a great cost to the state's economic and political viability. The uprising was led by Hong Xiuquan, an ethnic Hakka who, after a series of visions, proclaimed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. Hong sought the religious conversion of…
Statue of Hong Xiuquan in front of his former residence in Guangzhou