Faced with fighting the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing government was in no position to resist the West militarily.

In 1933, ROC government logged official protest to the French government after its occupation of Taiping Island.

As a result of a conflict with the Chinese government regarding the use of British naval units to suppress the Taiping rebellion, Lay was replaced by Robert Hart in 1863.

Unlike the Taiping Rebellion movement though, the Nien initially had no clear goals or objectives aside from criticism of the Qing government.

The Qing government slowly began cleaning up after the disaster, but were unable to provide effective aid as government finances had been drained during a recent war with Great Britain and the ongoing slaughter of the Taiping Rebellion.

In early 1856, the Qing government sent the Mongol General Senggelinqin, who had recently crushed a large Taiping army, to defeat the Nien.

Although the Nien rebellion was smaller than that of the Taiping, it severely drained government finances, devastated the richest areas of China, and left China's economy in a very precarious state.

He stated that the real enemy was the Qing government ; if the Taiping army could achieve victory over the Qing army led by Zeng Guofan, then the westerners might take side with the Taiping Kingdom.

As the Taiping troops approached south-eastern Shaanxi in the spring of 1862, the local Han Chinese, encouraged by the Qing government, formed tuanlian ( trad.

In 1867, the Qing government sent one of their most capable generals Zuo Zongtang, who was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, to Shaanxi.

Before his arrival, a previous power struggle erupted into a battle that killed over 20, 000 Nanjing residents and a leader of the Taiping government.

During the Taiping Rebellion, and with the Concessions effectively landlocked by both the Manchu government and Small Swords Society rebels, the Western residents of the Shanghai International Settlement, known as " Shanghailanders ", refused to pay taxes to the Chinese government except for land and maritime rates ( nominally because Shanghai's customs house had been burnt down ).

With the end of the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing government was able to send the imperial army to suppress the conflict with indiscrimate savagery.

South Jiangsu also figures strongly in the Taiping Rebellion ( 18511864 ), a massive and deadly rebellion that attempted to set up a Christian theocracy in China ; it started far to the south in Guangdong province, swept through much of South China, and by 1853 had established Nanjing as its capital, renamed as Tianjing ( 天京 " Heavenly Capital ").

In the northern Laotian lands bordering China, the insurgents of the Taiping rebellion had taken refuge since the reign of King Mongkut.

Peng's grand-uncle had joined and fought for the Taiping rebellion, and used to tell Peng about the old Taiping ideals: that everyone should have enough food to eat, that women should not bind their feet, and that land should be redistributed equally.

With Emperor Xuanzong and Princess Taiping locked into a power struggle, Zhang Shuo, from his post at Luoyang, had a messenger present Emperor Xuanzong with his sword -- meaning to tell him that it was time to take decisive action.

Many of the underground groups promoted the ideas of " Resist Qing and restore Ming " ( 反清復明 ) that had been around since the days of the Taiping Rebellion.

Sometime before 183, a major Taoist movement had emerged from Ji Province ( 冀州, modern central Hebei ) -- the Taiping Sect ( 太平教 ), led by Zhang Jiao, who claimed he had magical powers to heal the sick.

Although most of the soldiers were Chinese, many of the junior officers were Americans or European soldiers of fortune, some of whom had seen action in the Taiping Rebellion, and Liu used their expertise to transform the Black Flag Army into a formidable fighting force.

This office evolved from the Inspectorate of Customs, which had been created in 1854 as a response to the threat of attacks on Shanghai by Taiping rebels.

At this time the Taiping rebels were overrunning Hunan in their conquering career, and had possessed themselves of the cities and strongholds on both shores of the Yangtze River.

By the 1890s, the growth of the tin mining towns of Ipoh and Taiping had eclipsed Kuala Kangsar, but it remains to this day one of the most attractive of the Malay royal capitals.

The Anhui troupes reached their peak of excellence in the middle of the century, and were invited to perform in the court of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that had been established during the Taiping Rebellion.

By 1800 both the Banner forces and the Green Standard armies had declined to a low level of military effectiveness, as was shown in both the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.

The community had become for all intents and purposes religiously extinct by the late Qing Dynasty due to anti-foreign persecutions brought on by the Taiping Rebellion and Boxer Rebellion.

According to Taiping deputy police chief Supt Syed A. Wahab Syed A. Majid, the company had not obtained permission from the Royal Malaysian Air Force to conduct the flight tests.

Li Xiucheng had three daughters, their husbands were Taiping generals:

Wu Xu and Yang Fang both increasingly recognized that such a force was necessary, as Imperial forces, frequently staffed by Confucian scholars and conscripts, rather than experienced commanders and soldiers, had all too often proven unequal to the task of defeating Taiping forces.

Where before they had been unwilling to fight for Manchu primacy, they were now constantly threatened and in some cases occupied by Taiping forces that were, despite their “ heavenly ” origin, ruthless in their treatment of local populations.

Chinese troops, both Taiping and Imperial, “ had a lingering faith … in the intimidating power of noise ”.

By the summer, the fast-moving Nien cavalry, well-trained and fully equipped with modern firearms, had cut the lines of communication between Beijing and the Qing armies fighting the Taiping rebels in the south.

The Taiping Rebellion affected the area badly, and western imperialist aggression caused great economic hardship as cheap foreign goods flooded the region, with local products being bought up at rock-bottom prices.

During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing.

He made several journeys into the interior, notably in 1858 with Lord Elgin on a British Navy gunboat up the Yangtze and to Nanking, where he served as one member of delegate of three to meet with officials of the Taiping, and in 1868 with Griffith John to the capital of Szechuen and the source of the Han.

Zeng Guofan's strategy was to rely on local gentries to raise a new type of military organization from those provinces that the Taiping rebels directly threatened.

This translation, completed in 1847 is well known due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Tianguo movement ( Taiping Rebellion ) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization.

This translation, completed in 1847, is well-known due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan of the Taipingtianguo movement ( Taiping Rebellion ) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization.

* November 11 – Taiping Rebellion: Shi Dakai arrives at the Heavenly Capital once more with 100, 000 men and demands that Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang be executed.

In 1574 the massive 1000 volume encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era 《 太平御览 》/《 太平御覧 》 were printed with bronze movable type.

Hong Xiuquan ( 1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864 ), born Hong Renkun, style name Huoxiu ( 火秀 ), was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the " Heavenly King " and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.

After going to Guangde County, Anhui first, they went to the town of Huzhou ( 湖州 ), Zhejiang on 13 August 1864 to rendezvous with the local Taiping Army commander Huang Wenjin ( 黄文金 ).

His image in China remains controversial, with criticism on one hand for political and military mistakes and praise on the other for his success against the Taiping Rebellion, his diplomatic skills defending Chinese interests in the era of unequal treaties, and his role pioneering China's industrial and military modernization.

Hong then proclaimed the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the rebellion spread to several provinces with amazing speed.

Meanwhile, it was said that Princess Taiping, Dou, Cen, Xiao, and Cui ; along with other officials Xue Ji, Li Jin ( 李晉 ) the Prince of Xinxing ( a grandson of Li Deliang ( 李德良 ), a cousin of Tang's founder Emperor Gaozu ), Li You ( 李猷 ), Jia Yingfu ( 賈膺福 ), Tang Jun ( 唐晙 ); the generals Chang Yuankai ( 常元楷 ), Li Ci ( 李慈 ), and Li Qin ( 李欽 ); and the monk Huifan ( 惠範 ), were plotting to overthrow Emperor Xuanzong.

Takasugi's visit coincided with the Taiping Rebellion, and he was shocked by the effects of European imperialism even on the Chinese Empire.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, with the widespread influx of European ideology into China, Western religions gained a foothold, notably causing the Taiping Rebellion.

It was a period of peace ; the Taiping Rebellion and the war with United Kingdom ceased.

Tianjing (" Heavenly Capital ", not to be confused with Tianjin ) is the name given to Nanjing by Hong Xiuquan, king of the " Heavenly Kingdom of the Great Peace ", during the Taiping Rebellion, in imperial China, from 1853 to 1864.

Zeng raised the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the stability of Qing Dynasty along with other prominent figures, including Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, setting the scene for the era later known as the " Tongzhi Restoration "（ 同治中兴 ).

Some have blamed Zeng for all the civilian losses and damages done during the Taiping Rebellion, while others criticize him for being too friendly with certain foreign ideas.

He served with distinction during the Qing Empire's civil war against the Taiping Rebellion, in which it is estimated 20 million people died.

In August 1864, Zuo, together with Zeng Guofan, dethroned the Taiping teenage king, Hong Tianguifu, and brought an end to the rebellion.

After the Taiping Rebellion at the end of the Qing dynasty, in which the Wu-speaking region was devastated by war, Shanghai was inundated with migrants from other parts of the Wu-speaking area.

It was a Taiping stronghold for five years ( 1850 – 64 ) after they devastated the town to only leave one street with buildings intact.

The trainee from Taiping, Perak drowned while picnicking at Sungai Taman Wangi, Gua Musang, about 3 kilometres from his camp, with 250 trainees and 10 trainers.

He left in January 1862 on board the British gunboat Renard following a dispute with Hong, and was thereafter fiercely critical of the Taiping.