The Taiping Rebellion 1851-66 by Ian Heath

By Ian Heath

The Taiping stream all started because the Pai Shang-ti Hui (the Society of God-Worshippers), based in Kwangsi province in 1846 by means of Hung Hsiu-ch'uan. A sickly person of questionable sanity. Hung had turn into topic to visions which interpreted as demonstrating that he was once Jesus Christ's 'Divine more youthful Brother', with God's mandate to control China. This attention-grabbing paintings via Ian Heath examines the supplier, costume and guns of forces on either side of the Taiping uprising – a clash which observed the involvement of round 10 million troops in the course of 15 years of clash; as many as six hundred towns swap fingers time and time back; and 20-30 million deaths.

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