taiping

Stalin industrialized the Soviet union by collectivizing agriculture and exporting it's output to gain the capital need to hire the experts and buy the equipment required for industrialization. Taiping rebellion also abolished private property and planned to adopt modern technology like...

Instead of Hong Xiuquan's version of Christianity, the leader of an alt-Taiping Rebellion preaches a new faith that like OTL Mormonism is built around a holy book revealing the previously undisclosed work of God's prophets, except the setting is prehistoric China rather than America. Syncretic...

We'll assume minimum butterflies in the US and Europe for this scenario. Say the Heavenly Kingdom overthrow the Qing and Hong Rengan's moderates curb his cousin's excesses and forms a functioning Theocracy that's able to work with reality. Over the next century they manage to slap down Japan's...

(Sidenote: Kinda of piggy backing on this thread) So when reading about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I thought some of the Taiping's Policy was absolute crazy, here are a few of them: So this got me thinking, what would happen Cultural in the aftermath if the Taiping took over China? Say the...

Butterflies will fly off but I'd like to control them just enough to examine this particular relationship. Say that Heavenly Kingdom becomes the new dynasty and and moderates make reforms to to preserve the state up to the 1920's. Meanwhile, Russia still enters a painful war with Germany and/or...

Challenge: Have the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, ruled by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, gain independence, and Industrialize over the decades along side Japan (Not modernize the Government, it would remain feudal, hey would never do that under Hong Xiuquan)

The Taiping rebellion brought the Qing to its knees, however, it ultimately failed due to it being a Christian rebellion. While many fighting for the Taiping didn't really care for it being Christian, it failed to turn into a Han revolution because it was not based on Confucianism. In fact, many...

As you know, during the the period from 1850 to 1874 China was wracked by one conflicts after another from the Taipei Civil War to the Nien Rebellion to the Second Opium War. Miraculously, the Qing still managed to put down the numerous rebellions and continue to be a functioning state for a...

We all know China's history in the 19th century wasn't too rosy. It was faced by corruption, rebellion (e.g. the Taiping), the Opium Wars, Western imposed unequal treaties, free trade, extraterritoriality, treaty ports under foreign control, foreign concessions on Chinese soil (Hong Kong...