During the 1700s, trade with Europe rapidly increased ... All of the treaties were very damaging to the Qing. The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) is another example of the things that were ...

The truth is that for every Chinese rebellion which succeeds, there are scores which fail - like the Taiping rebellion, led by a man influenced by Christian missionaries, who declared a heavenly ...

It investigates the impact of Taiping Rebellion on the emergence of autonomous local commercial taxation.