Originally, all Hong Xiuquan wanted was to be part of the establishment. A village schoolteacher, he immersed himself in Confucian scholarship for the civil service exam, but he just kept failing.

China was convulsed by a rebellion started by Hong Xiuquan, a man who claimed to be Jesus's younger brother. The Taiping rebellion promised to bring a kingdom of heavenly peace to China but ...

The chapter on China and East Asia makes this particularly clear. Hong Xiuquan (1814-64), leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty, converted to Christianity when he read a tract that ...

In 1851, during the Qing dynasty, a Christian sub-empire was established within the borders of the middle Kingdom, when Hong Xiuquan declared himself the Heavenly King and established the Heavenly ...

‘Taiping’ is also often used to refer to the followers of the movement. The leader of the uprising, Hong Xiuquan, was a man from the south of China who had failed the exams to become an officia ...

Zuo Zongtang was one of the greatest military leaders in China’s long and storied history. In the mid-19th century, he rose ...

Hong Xiuquan, a... In the latest of the concise Penguin Lives series, China historian Spence (The Gate of Heavenly Peace, etc.) blends historical facts with cultural analysis, creating a work that ...

Chu Kai-pong was arrested at a train station wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times' [File: Tyrone Siu/Reuters] Published On 16 Sep 202416 Sep 2024 A Hong ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that ...