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People: Gaius Laelius
Topic: Chinese Rebellion & Reaction 1876-87
Location: Akhisar > Thyateira > Thyatira Manisa Turkey

Chinese Rebellion & Reaction 1876-87

Years: 1876 - 1887

The most important of the several rebellions that rock imperial China in the laer 19th century is the communistic uprising and subsquent civil war known as the Tai-Ping Rebellion, which begins in 1850 and lasts until 1865.

Nearly parallel to this event is the Nien Rebellion that begins in 1853 and is not suppressed by the authorities until 1868.

The Muslim Rebellions in Yunnan and in Shensi and Kansu compound the problems of the Manchu government, which finally crushes the last of the Muslim rebellions in 1881.

This thread is a "super-thread," a combination of the separate treads that treat the Tai-Ping, Nien, and Muslim rebellions in China
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“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)