A new dynasty - nien and taiping rebellions join forces

Dorozhand

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What if the Nien and Taiping rebellions had joined forces, won against the Manchus, and established a new dynasty?

-how would this have impacted european imperialism in China? could the "breath of life" of a new [han] dynasty have revitalized the country?

-might a more united, powerful-looking rebellion have prompted the russians to support the uprising? that might have had the advantage of drawing the europeans away from the crimea [which would make that war the first "world war"]

-how would hong have played within this? would he have been the new emperor? or would a better candidate have been chosen, with him being appeased with something?
 
As I've asked before:

What if everyone who historically rebelled pre-1900s did so at the same time, Russian/Spanish Civil War style, in the late 19th century? Such an event would feature the Hui, the Taiping, an earlier Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, Mongols, rogue Han Chinese generals, the White Lotus Society, the Uyghur, Tibetans, other Muslisms, western-styled republican revolutionaries, and random peasants.
 
Holy shit. One wonders what the foreign response would be in that all-out rebellion scenario, considering that Europeans and Americans would be caught in the crossfire regardless of the motives of the factions (Boxers would obviously be hostile, but just the sheer volume of fighting would see many foreign deaths)
 
Not very plausible, unfortunately. Most of those rebellions originating in or around the mid-19th century wouldn't be able to maintain the necessary momentum to last until the end of the century without reaching the tipping point where the Qing would step in and see them as a viable threat to their authority and proceed to take down the rebellion.
 
Yeah, that scenario wasn't meant to be serious, since many of those rebellions were not contemporaries of each other, unlike the Nien and Taiping of the OP.
 
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