Taunay
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Post by Taunay on Dec 30, 2022 1:42:39 GMT
The White Lotus Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion) was just one of the many rebellions that took place during the Qing dynasty.
The question is: Can it succeed and overthrow the government?
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Post by lordroel on Dec 30, 2022 8:29:08 GMT
The White Lotus Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion) was just one of the many rebellions that took place during the Qing dynasty. The question is: Can it succeed and overthrow the government? |
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Post by raharris1973 on Jan 4, 2023 12:42:14 GMT
It doesn’t seem like it ever got as big as the Taiping or Nien rebellions.
It would be interesting if this rebellion in the very early 19th century, went bigger and ‘national’ or won.
All things being equal, it would increase China’s vulnerability to have a period of inter-dynastic instability starting in the early 19th century.
It could set China up to be ‘Raj’ed’ by Britain, Russia, and possibly other European powers from the decades that immediately follow the Napoleonic wars.
Or, China could luck out, if the victorious rebels or emergent winners from the early 19th century fracas are a new, vigorous, innovative, yet stable dynasty that rules with Meiji-like competence and skill, solidifying China as a world power by 1900.
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Post by Max Sinister on Jan 4, 2023 13:33:23 GMT
I don't know much about Chinese rebellions, except a bit about the Taiping. So yeah, why did they not succeed, other than Sun Yatsen & co? Because the latter just had to face Pu Yi, who was a) too young and b) really not too bright even as an adult (check his autpbiography)?
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