Taiping Rebellion, political and religious upheaval in China that was probably the most important event in China in the 19th century. It lasted from 1850 to 1864 and took an estimated 20 million lives. Read here to learn more about the Taiping Rebellion.
In the mid-1850s, while the Qing government was embroiled in trying to quell theTaiping Rebellion(1850–64), the British, seeking to extend their trading rights in China, found an excuse to renew hostilities. In early October 1856 some Chinese officials boarded the British-registered shipArrow...
The generally accepted combined figure of soldier and civilian deaths for World War I is 10-12 million. This figure pales next to The Taiping Rebellion of 1850-1864 that resulted in 40 million deaths, and is quite similar to the 10 million deaths of The Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. ...
The canal’s dikes were opened in 1855 to flood the approaching troops of the Taiping Rebellion Northern Expedition. The canal languished for decades due to various factors, including the challenge of navigating the Yellow River, the growing development of an alternative sea route for grain ships...
The initiators of the Taiping Rebellion tried to ban foot binding, but the practice was still continued well into the twentieth century. Today, it the foot binding is seldom practiced. But many of China’s older women still suffer from the pain of their disability. ...
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There is an old story that circulates among the Guilin people. It is said that Elephant Trunk Hill is the embodiment of a God Elephant, who used to be the mount of the Emperor of Heaven. It was separated from the Emperor in a war and stranded in Guilin with severe wounds. A local ...
Earlier, the first recorded use of toilet paper was made in 589 by the scholar-official Yan Zhitui (531–591), and in 851 an Arab Muslim traveler commented on how he believed the Tang era Chinese were not careful about cleanliness because they did not wash with water (as was his people...
the highest ever of 32.9%, almost a third of the overall GDP of the world. Even in 1870, a year after the Opium War, China still accounted for 17.2% of the global GDP, for all external exploitations of Western countries and internal convulsions of the Taiping Rebellion. Maddison (2006)...
Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising (1900) that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. ‘Boxers’ was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (‘Righteous and Harmonious Fists’). Learn more