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The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), usually known in Chinese after the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (simplified Chinese: 太平天国; traditional Chinese: 太平天國; pinyin: Tàipíng Tiānguó) proclaimed by the rebels, was a rebellion in southern China inspired by a Hakka named Hong Xiuquan, who had claimed that he was the ...
Inside China, the rebellion faced resistance from the traditionalist rural classes because of hostility to Chinese culture and Confucian values. The landowning upper class, unsettled by the Taiping ideology and the policy of strict separation of the sexes, even for married couples, sided with government forces.
By the end of 756, the rebel Yan army had captured most of northern China, which then included both Tang capitals, Chang'an and Luoyang, and was home to the majority of the empire's population. The Yangtze basin had thus become the main base of the Tang dynasty's war efforts.
Pages in category "Chinese rebels" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Guo Ma; L.
Chinese rebels (12 C, 5 P) Civil wars in China (9 C, 25 P) E. ... Pages in category "Rebellions in China" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Chinese troops in Korea depicted on a 1952 Chinese postage stamp Poster of Chinese rebels in Sarawak, Malaysia. On October 1, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square. Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees ...
China is defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War, revealing the severe weaknesses of the Qing state, and the power of the modernised Japanese Empire. 1895: The Furen Literary Society is merged into the Hong Kong chapter of the Revive China Society, with Yeung Ku-wan as president and Sun Yat-sen as Secretary. 1895
The city was taken on 7 October 1642, by diverting a river and flooding the city, killing 270,000 people. The rebels looted whatever was left of the city and retreated. A 20th-century illustration of the Li's army looting Beijing. By 1643, the rebels had coalesced into two major factions in Li Zicheng in Central China and Zhang Xianzhong in ...