In many ways, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the bastard child of North Korea, early Mormonism, and ISIS. Not only did you have an aggressive cult of personality that worshipped Hong Xiuquan as the literal younger brother of Jesus, but also massive large-scale land reappropriation, "reeducation/religious conversion camps", mass killings of villages that rejected Hong Xiuquan's divinity and/or Christianity, the destruction of centuries old landmarks, and the burning of any "non-Christian" literature, which in the context of 19th century China, was more or less everything the revolutionaries could get their hands on. The list goes on and on.
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I don't mean to derail the thread, but I don't know much about China... but why was the Taiping Rebellion so successful IOTL? Was it solely due to the incompetence of the Qing regime?