In 1850, a group of Chinese called the Taipings launched a rebellion to overthrow the Ch'ing rulers. Tso helped organize local defense forces to fight the rebels, and quickly became one of the ...

In 1850 a Chinese Christian convert named Hong Xiuquan proclaimed himself the leader of a new religious and political movement in China, the Taipings, and set out to remove the Manchus of the ...

These, I suppose, are the treaty ports. The Taipings, flushed with recent victories in Chikeang Province, expressed themselves determined to take all the cities of China, and treated with disdain ...