Hong Rengan, a cousin and neighbor of…

Hong Rengan, a cousin and neighbor of Hong Xiuquan, had fled at the outbreak of the Taiping rebellion in 1850 to the British settlement of Hong Kong, where he had been baptized and educated by a Protestant missionary.

He finally makes his way to the Taiping camp in 1859 with the intention of teaching the Taipings the correct version of Protestant Christianity and helping them improve their relations with the Western countries.