What would the long term affects of a successful Taiping rebellion? Hong Xiuquan becomes emperor.
What would the long term affects of a successful Taiping rebellion? Hong Xiuquan becomes emperor.
Yes, search for "All About My Brother": extremely high quality timeline.Are there any good Taiping victory TLs? As to long term affects I expect something akin to what happened when the communists took over with short term disaster but long term improvement.
That's gonna be awfully hard when you've got the leader of the movement claiming to be Jesus' little brother and other leaders claiming to be the voices of Jesus and Yahweh. There is a very good reason why the initially overjoyed Europeans ("Christian Chinese? Huzzah!") chose the Qing over a bunch of loony heretics and their pirate/criminal allies.Best case scenario would be for the Taiping to follow European Christianity so one nation would be willing to put significant aid into the rebels.
Why bother with that when the Qing where already bending over backwards currying European favor to help put down the revolt? Much easier to support the ruling devil you know than the rebellious devil you don't.The other European powers would probably help the other revolting movements if they could be controlled.