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The Taiping Revolution. ... Wolfgang Frank calls the Taiping movement a "revolution"
while accepting the shortcomings of the movement. ...
... decline of the dynastic period in China and rise to a new revolution within the ... Their
run on China would be known as the Taiping Rebellion and would cause more ...
... rebellions in terms of human lives and economics followed the Taiping Rebellion
such ... civil disorder had begun, and calls for reform and revolution were heard ...
... Chinese society was still reeling from the ravages of the Taiping and other rebellions ...
The Republican Revolution of 1911 Failure of reform from the top and the ...
... the government and landlords culminated into a peasant uprising called the Taiping
Rebellion which ... Dr. Sun-Yat-sen consolidated power after the revolution. ...
Submitted by shaolirudra on March 27, 2007
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The Taiping movement, an experimental revolution in China that struck a formidable blow to the Manchus in the mid 19th century, is widely debated and questions pertaining to its character', whether it was a Rebellion or a Revolution, remain largely unsettled. Some historians regard it as a full-fledged revolution, even to the extent of calling it the harbinger of the Communist Movement; while others believe that the former is a gross over-glorification, and that the Taiping Movement was no more than traditional Chinese peasant rebellion. Further, it is debated whether the Taiping movement was a peasant rebellion' at all. While a discussion of the various academic stances is imperative for an objective appraisal of the nature of the Taiping movement, it is first and foremost necessary to elaborate on the milieu that gave birth to the movement, as well as the very consciousness of the movement itself.
By the late 1840s the general condition of China was irreversibly conducive to imminent rebellion. The Taiping movement can basically be seen as an immediate reaction of the Chinese peasantry to the First Opium War and later the Second Opium War, and the Unequal Treaties following them. For two thousand years preceding the mid-nineteenth century the social structure and the mode of production in China had scarcely changed. In the mid-19th century, China witnessed severe internal crises and the resultant upheaval created widespread social, economic and political discontent. In the aftermath of the Opium Wars and the Unequal Treaty System, inhuman burdens were inflicted on the Chinese peasantry, as a result of which began in China a tradition of peasant rebellions', that were both political and social in character. Peasant movements like the Miao, Yao, Lolo, Moslem and Nin were precursors to the most significant and formidable peasant movement China had witnessed yet- The Taiping Rebellion, which lasted from 1850 uptil 1864.
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