"Horrible atrocities in China. (From a Correspondent.) Canton, Sept. 12th, 1855. As you are the depicter of events passing in the nineteenth century, I send you herewith a sketch in connection with ...

The Taiping Rebellion was mostly a revolt by poor rural peasants against their landlords and the rich; inspired by the religious pamphlets of an American missionary. Hong, the leader, spent years ...

This poster provides a detailed research design and its preliminary results on the topic of fiscal modernisation for Late Imperial China from 1850s to 1900s. It investigates the impact of Taiping ...

The Nian Rebellion (1851-1869) in the east and north of China had ties to a Buddhist sect, while the Taiping Rebellion in the south was led by a man who claimed to be the recipient of divine ...