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  2. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1851–1864), was a theocratic monarchy which sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty.The Heavenly Kingdom, or Heavenly Dynasty, [1] [a] was led by Hong Xiuquan, a Hakka man from Guangzhou.

  3. Political theology in China - Wikipedia

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    Kang Youwei advocated the idea of a Confucian church as the state religion of China. [4] Taixu would seek to reform Chinese Buddhism, to contribute to the building of Chinese society and politics. [5] Christian leaders like Y. T. Wu, in the face of the anti-Christian movement, appealed to revolutionary theory and constructed a Chinese Christian ...

  4. Theocracy - Wikipedia

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    The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1851 to 1864) in Qing China was a heterodox Christian theocracy led by Hong Xiuquan, who portrayed himself as the younger brother of Jesus Christ. His theocratic state fought one of the most destructive wars in history, the Taiping Rebellion , against the Qing dynasty for fifteen years before being crushed ...

  5. Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Since the winner is the one who determines who has obtained the Mandate of Heaven and who has lost it, some Chinese scholars consider it to be a sort of victor's justice, best characterized in the popular Chinese saying "The winner becomes king, the loser becomes outlaw" (Chinese: “成者爲王,敗者爲寇”). Due to this, it is ...

  6. Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the Hakka, to a greater extent than other Han Chinese, have been historically associated with popular unrest and rebellion. The retaking of Nanjing by Qing troops. 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. Over the ...

  7. Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms - Wikipedia

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    The first film mainly narrates the fantastic and fictitious version of the political fallout following the ascension of the last king of Shang dynasty. The film was released in China on July 20, 2023. It is the 25th highest-grossing film ever in China, and the trilogy is considered to be the most ambitious and expensive Chinese production ever ...

  8. The Founding of a Party - Wikipedia

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    The IMAX version of the film was screened in only a select 20 of the 24 IMAX theatres in China. [13] [21] The Chinese theatrical releases of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 were delayed until late July, possibly to ensure that The Founding of a Party received the maximum amount of attention ...

  9. China: The Roots of Madness - Wikipedia

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    China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.