The Taiping Movement as Just Another Traditional Rebellion

The traditional revolt in Chinese history means dissatisfaction of farmers, participants' rebellion is mainly farmers. It is not an existing government, it is not an existing government, it aims to overthrow an existing government, not an established order. The fundamental cause of the rebellion was dissatisfaction of the farmers and since the majority of the participants were farmers, the Taiping Heaven riot between 1850 and 1864 was sometimes seen as a farmer riot.

In 1850, the uprising of Taiping heaven spread to the southern part of China. The rebellion continued until 1864, part of the religious movements and was part of the political reform movement. It was only shelved after the deaths of millions of Chinese in the regional troops. The involvement of the regional forces began to evolve from centralized rule, which brought the era of warlords in the 1920s. Some are trying to resist the Western control of China's educated elite. However, the self-improvement movement has a difference in the way to modernize China, Manchuria County unanimously did not support reform. China still succumbed to the West and faced shame of the Japanese war defeat in 1895. China lost more territory in resolving the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05). The range of popular anti-Western senses became a broad violent rebellion against the rebellion of Westerners and boxers in 1899.

In contemporary China, the war is often referred to as Taipei Heaven Movement, reflecting views of nationalism and communism. In other words, Taipei Heaven represents the values ​​of Han Chinese nationalism or primitive communism. Scholar Jian Youwen called the revolt "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolutionary Movement" because it was devoted to fundamentally changing the political and social systems, not replacing one dynasty with another dynasty It is one of people. Many Western historians call this confrontation "Taipei Heaven Riot". However, recently, scholars such as Toby Melfang and Stephen Pratt say that the term "Taiping Heavenly Uprising" is biased as the Qing government is a legitimate government against illegal Taiping Heavenly Kingdom insurgents thinking about. Instead, they think that conflict should be called 'civil war'