Why did the Taiping Rebellion happen? Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping rebellion was one of the largest internal revolts in modern world history. It lasted some fourteen years (1850-1864) and was one of the major reasons for the fall of the Qing dynasty. An army of commoners marched across ...
Where did the Taiping Rebellion take place? What did Hong Xiuquan want in the Taiping Rebellion? Did the Taiping Rebellion remove the emperor from power? Why did Mao Zedong choose to have a cultural revolution in the 1960s, rather than an actual revolution?
The period 1912-49 in China is commonly called ‘Nationalist’. But at no time did it have a functional government that deserved the nameNationalist. A minority of the warlords tried to be, and nowadays get listed as ‘patriotic’ by Beijing. But the people on top never dared to insist t...
Why did the Nanking Massacre happen? Second Sino-Japanese War: From 1937 until 1945, China and Japan were involved in a war against each other known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, took place for several weeks between December and ...