During the mid-19th century in China, a series of revolts against the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) raged, devastating the landscape and claiming millions of lives. The Nian Rebellion (1851-1869 ...

It killed millions of people on both sides of the rebellion and left much of southern China in ruins. People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much ...

A number of domestic rebellions and political movements sprang up in the late 1800s to reject this state of affairs and the weakness of the Qing dynasty. Meanwhile, within the dynasty, several ...

The conflict was between the Qing Dynasty and the Christian millenarian movement of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The instigator ...

The Qing dynasty's famous troops ... Hong showed peasant rebellion could work in the modern age. This was one of the lessons the Communists took from the Taipings. The two rebellions in fact ...

The word “fan” has the same sound as another Chinese character that means “rebellion,” so it was ... In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with milk), a clear ...

The Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty was a period of extreme political turmoil in China. The conquest started with a rebellion against Chinese imperial authority in Manchuria, in far northeastern ...

Sackler Gallery, provides a look at spin, Qing dynasty-style ... put down the Boxer rebellion in a matter of months. Cixi survived, but with a reputation for cruelty and treachery.