Hi, Today I am going to talk about the fantastic and the horrible Taiping Revolution. So, what is the Taiping revolution you may ask? Anyone? No? Well then, The Taiping Rebellion / Civil War, 160 years ago, this rebellion is most commonly known in China as Taiping TianGuo. It takes place in Southern China, Guangxi Province in the 1850s to the mid-1860s. 20 – 30 million people died, mainly civilians throughout the Taiping Rebellion. Which are twice the causalities of World War 1. In fact, the period from 1850 to 1873, as a result of rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over sixty million people. Along with humiliating defeats at the hands of European powers, the mid-nineteenth century in China was truly tragic. The
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In other words, the reason why they rebellion failed is that when Hong Xiuquan and his army took over the corrupt Manchu Qing Dynasty. The new leaders are no better, they were also corrupted with power. Then a new generation of farmers took over the previous leaders and they also became corrupt. It just goes on and on. This is actually very similar to the book called ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell which is an allegory to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. The animals (mainly the pigs) play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow the human owners of the farm, setting it up as, at first, all animals are equal. But throughout the book, the ‘all animals are equal’ has been thrown out of the window and the pigs are the ones in power and looking down on the peasants (the other animals). The novel describes how a society's ideas and beliefs can be manipulated and twisted by those in social and political power positions. This is very similar to the Taiping Rebellion, the French Revolution and other revolutions throughout
In other words, the reason why they rebellion failed is that when Hong Xiuquan and his army took over the corrupt Manchu Qing Dynasty. The new leaders are no better, they were also corrupted with power. Then a new generation of farmers took over the previous leaders and they also became corrupt. It just goes on and on. This is actually very similar to the book called ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell which is an allegory to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. The animals (mainly the pigs) play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow the human owners of the farm, setting it up as, at first, all animals are equal. But throughout the book, the ‘all animals are equal’ has been thrown out of the window and the pigs are the ones in power and looking down on the peasants (the other animals). The novel describes how a society's ideas and beliefs can be manipulated and twisted by those in social and political power positions. This is very similar to the Taiping Rebellion, the French Revolution and other revolutions throughout