The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history. At least 20 million people perished in this 14-year civil war between a peasant army led by a pseudo-religious ...

Photo taken on May 19, 2011, shows a mandarin jacket inwrought with dragon patterns of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom exhibited in Hong Kong, south China. The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense held ...

The Taiping Rebellion is one of the single bloodiest wars in the history of humanity when China crushed a Christian rebel state founded by "Jesus's younger brother." July 19, 2022 marks 158 years ...

China’s brutal Taiping Civil War erupted in the 1850s and raged until the fall of rebel-held Nanjing in 1864. The bloodbath paralleled our own North-South conflict, but dwarfed it in terms of ...

The former residence of Prince Shi (Li Shixian) of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is ready to open to the public on May 18, 2015 after a three-year renovation in Jinhua city, East China’s Zhejiang ...

The last great English-language history of the 19th-century Taiping Rebellion — one of the bloodiest uprisings the world has ever seen — was published in 1996. China, at the time, was slowly emerging ...

Structurally, Stephen Platt's “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom” is a thriller. The author, who received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University and is an associate professor at the University ...