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Just a quick post because I've just started reading Stephen Platt's 'Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom' about the Taiping Rebellion and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts about how the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could have survived - either by completely ousting the Qing or by becoming an independent state in OTL south-eastern China. If there are any TLs which have dealt with this, either as a POV or as another important plot point, I'd love to read them.

Reading about Hong Rengan's proposed reforms, I wonder what kind of state might have emerged if it had had time to develop and how that would change European attitudes towards China and vice versa.

All thoughts and speculation welcome - I just don't know much about the topic yet and would love to hear people's views
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