Hong Xiuquan: The Taiping Rebellion
It’s one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. In 1851, the Taiping Rebellion exploded in Qing dynasty China, causing death on an unprecedented scale. Over 14 years of civil war, an estimated 20 million people died, more than were killed in the whole of WWI. It was, simply, the deadliest war of the nineteenth century, and it was all thanks to one man: Hong Xiuquan. →Subscribe for new videos four times per week. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Hasan Sabbah: Legend of the Assassins https://youtu.be/OUVY3CFQAGY King Herod: Mad Tyrant or Misunderstood Hero? https://youtu.be/cd5k01D7H6k Source/Further reading: Excellent podcast on the rebellion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yqvqt Good overview of Hong Xiuquan’s life: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hong-Xiuquan (excellent resource on the rebellion’s formation and early years): https://www.facinghistory.org/nanjing-atrocities/nation-building/seeds-unrest-taiping-movement (references to the famine and peasant uprising that started it all in 1851): https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-taiping-rebellion-195606 https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zg3j4j6 (some good details on beliefs, including styles of dress): https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/books/unheavenly-kingdom.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19977188 Cannibalism: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/portrait-of-a-bloody-siege Mao and Taiping: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-09/03/content_371353.htm Mao’s death toll: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/05/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao/
