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Taiping Rebellion



 who: Taiping Rebellion was led by Hong Xichuan when: 1850-1864 where: Went to Nanking then to Beijing what: The REBELLION why: influenced by Christainity, and also for unfair social reforms how: through violent revolts by people Taiping believers became __fanatically disciplined and devoted soldiers__, willing to die without hesitation in God's cause against demonic forces. The Central reason they advanced so quickly was that they avoided large urban centers and so encountered little resistance.

The Taipings occupied Nanking in March of 1853; they renamed the city, T'ien-ching, or "Heavenly Capital ." From T'ien-ching, they attacked Beijing, but their army, after making rapid progress north, was defeated.

The Taipings had very few competent officials; __**efforts to recruit scholar-officials were usually unsuccessful since most educated Chinese were deeply disturbed by the theocratic nature of the state and the lack of education among its leaders.**__

The "Heavely King", rather than dedicating himself to divine virtue, he plunged into the sensual pleasures of the palace and the sexual pleasures of the harem of women he had collected around himself. __Hung's withdrawal from Taiping administration sent cracks all through the Taiping administration.__

By **1864**, the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace was coming to an end.

from http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/TAIPING.HTM