Start Your Lifelong Learning Journey Today! With the second Opium War (1856-1860) raging at the time, Britain feared the Taiping rebels might overrun the treaty ports they had just wrested from the Qing regime. London: Ernest Benn, 1962. p. 167, Chesneaux, Jean. Nel 1859, Hong Regan, cugino di Xiuquan, si unì ai Taiping a Nanchino, e, ricevuto un notevole potere, sviluppò un piano ambizioso per espandere i confini dei Taiping. At the peak of the rebellion two thirds of the land of China was under Taiping control. Visse nel lusso ed ebbe molte donne nelle sue stanze, oltre che a pubblicare restrizioni religiose, e questo lo portò in conflitto con Yang Xiuqing.

In 2000 CCTV produced The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a 46-episode series about the Taiping Rebellion. With the end of high tech. In Lisa See's novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan the title character is married to a man who lives in Jintian and the characters get caught up in the action. [43] Some of his followers escaped or were released and continued the fight against the Qing. Almost every citizen who had not fled the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was given military training and conscripted into the army to fight against Qing imperial forces. [85] Ultimately, the Taiping Rebellion inspired Sun Yat-sen and other future revolutionaries, and some surviving Taiping veterans even joined the Revive China Society[86] as well as the Chinese Communist Party, which characterised the rebellion as a proto-communist uprising. [56], The other Muslim rebellion, the Dungan revolt, was the reverse: it was not aimed at overthrowing the Qing dynasty since its leader Ma Hualong accepted an imperial title. Nel 1853 le forze del Taiping conquistarono Nanchino, trasformandola nella capitale del loro autoproclamato Stato e ribattezandola con il nome di Tianjing (Capitale Celeste). Dal momento che consideravano gli individui legati alla dinastia di etnia Manciù come una sorta di esseri "demoniaci", passarono per le armi tutti i cittadini maschi e scacciarono le donne dalle porte della città, che poi giustiziarono per mezzo di enormi roghi. Contemporary accounts describe the amount of desolation which befell rural areas as a result of the conflict. The other significant ethnic group in the Taiping army was the Zhuang, an indigenous people of Tai origin and China's largest non-Han ethnic minority group. Anqing was captured in February 1852. Prominent at this level was Shi Dakai, who was half-Hakka, half-Zhuang and spoke both languages fluently, making him quite a rare asset to the Taiping leadership. Nel 1863, Shi Dakai si arrese ai Qing nei pressi della capitale Sichuan di Chengu, e fu giustiziato tramite lenti tagli. I taiping instaurarono un sistema di vita comune e di comunione di tutti beni, la popolazione venne organizzata in gruppi di venticinque famiglie (ku), una struttura di base che aveva nello stesso tempo competenze amministrative, militari, religiose e di produzione. Taiping forces successfully repulsed an attempted imperial reprisal by the Green Standard Army against the Jintian Uprising. In the origin of this vast movement can be seen the great importance of individual-