Overthrowing the Qing: Starting with the Jintian Uprising

Chen Yuan, a 21st-century double PhD in strategic analysis and engineering, transmigrates in spirit to 1850, the final year of the Daoguang Emperor's reign in the Qing Dynasty, after a laboratory accident. He becomes an impoverished scholar on the verge of starvation in Guiping County, Guangxi, right at the center of an impending storm: Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, and others are secretly preparing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, which is about to sweep across China.

When the flames of the Jintian Uprising finally ignite, Chen Yuan appears before the world at the head of a “modern” army equipped with “era-defying” weapons, strict discipline, and unwavering convictions. He is no longer a bystander to history, but a maker of it. This is a narrow bridge lined with thorns, with the abyss of the old era on one side and the trap of a utopia on the other. Can Chen Yuan use his knowledge and resolve to move the wheels of history and carve a different path to survival for China?