History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
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The Taiping Rebellion was a peasant war of unprecedented scale in modern Chinese history. It took more than ten years from 1851 when the God Worshipers Association led by Hong Xiuquan announced an uprising in Jintian and founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the failure of the Taiping Revolution. In this short period of more than ten years, the Taiping Revolution established many brilliant achievements. They established their capital in Tianjing and established a revolutionary regime that was opposed to the Qing government; they issued a series of political and economic policies such as the "Chinese Land Acquisition System" to encourage the development of agriculture and commerce; they sent troops to the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition to fight against the Hunan Army led by Zeng Guofan, and so on. These are things that we cannot ignore when facing this peasant regime. But the Taiping Revolution was a peasant revolution after all, and it undeniably had limitations of the times and classes. The Tianjing Incident was the most prominent manifestation of these limitations. So from this perspective, the Taiping Rebellion could not escape the fate of failure.
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