A new body of research is examining historical calamities like the Black Death and the Taiping Rebellion to better understand their role in development. Three key features of society are necessary for ...

The Taiping Rebellion and its self-proclaimed messiah threatened the Qing dynasty's hold on China as the nation battled Europe in the Opium Wars. The Taiping rebels can be seen retreating across a ...

Hong Xiuquan believed he was the younger brother of Christ and by 1850 had 20,000 Chinese followers gearing up for a rebellion. It became known as the Taiping Rebellion, and tens of millions of deaths ...

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This poster presents a quantitative study that investigates how the static, centralized and agrarian fiscal system of the Qing China was transformed into a responsive, decentralized and diverse one ...