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20/04/2023

S01E42 Taiping Rebellion: Epilogue In this episode, we finish up our coverage of the Taiping Rebellion, as such. In following episodes, we'll do a little more with how the roots in the succeeding era come on from interactions between the Qing Dynasty government and foreign powers. We follow the fina...

18/04/2023

S01E41: Taiping Rebellion: The Siege of Nanjing In this episode, we deal with the Siege of Nanjing. As the extremely brutal culmination of years of already brutal fighting, the Qing loyalist forces of Zeng Guofan finally storm the Taiping capital and put a permanent end to the top leadership of the....

06/04/2023

S01E40 Fast Forwarding to the End of the Taiping Rebellion In this episode, I take a rambling skim through several chapters of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom. There is a lot of content I want to get to, other than the blow by blow of the Taiping Rebellion. I'm fast forwarding to the end of this one....

02/03/2023

S01E39 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing, On the Edge of a Knife Some points of review on where we left the Taiping Rebellion story. We're getting back into the Taiping Rebellion. We'll be following the story of Zeng Guofan most closely. For Zeng Guofan, dogged determination and luck keep him in th...

23/02/2023

S01E38 We're Back! Thoughts on the Future of the Podcast We're back from break! While I've been away, I've still been doing reading on China and thinking about the podcast, thinking about how to keep moving it forward. I'll probably move to a more modular approach: 2-3 episodes on a topic, a person,...

05/01/2023

S01E37 Taiping Rebellion: Taiping Propaganda Under Hong Rengan Here we go, grinding back into gear with this year's episodes. This episode's title addresses one of the main actual insights in the episode, not quite what it's about. Hong Rengan is working on planning the modern government structure o...

08/12/2022

S01E36 Taiping Rebellion: Other Foreign Visitors to the Taiping In this episode, we look at more of the visitors to Hong Rengan, effective foreign minister for the Taiping. First is Griffith John, a Welsh missionary. He came on a factfinding mission to see what Nanjing was like under the Taiping. He...

01/12/2022

S01E35 Taiping Rebellion: Issachar Roberts In the present look at Hong Rengan in the Taiping hierarchy, we are looking at some of the foreigners who drifted over to the Taiping side. This episode focuses on eccentric loose cannon missionary Issachar Roberts. In this episode, we see an example of how...

24/11/2022

S01E34 Taiping Rebellion: Foreigners and Revolutions In this episode we're shifting back to look at the Taiping side of the Taiping Rebellion. We look at how the Taiping Rebellion works out to be a failed, an incomplete revolution. It brings out certain problems that future revolutions will resolve,...

17/11/2022

S01E33 Taiping Rebellion: Siege of Anqing Begins In this episode, we wrap up a bunch of episodes on Zeng Guofan. We talk about the human element in war, how Zeng Guofan is conserving his troops' morale and will to fight, and how he's taking on much larger numbers through careful strategy and tactics...

20/10/2022

S01E32 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Perfects His Strategy In this episode, we see Zeng Guofan start to get a grip on the task of fighting the Taiping Rebellion. He has to balance between the political necessities of showing his troops that fighting far from home is a way to protect home and achiev...

13/10/2022

S01E31 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Starts Attacking In this episode, we go over the organization of Zeng Guofan's army and the first few years of his campaigns against the Taiping rebels. We are following the book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping....

06/10/2022

S01E30 Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan Builds His Army In this episode, we look at the process that Zeng Guofan went through to build his army. When he was in Hunan to mourn the death of his mother, in 1853 he accepted the mission from the emperor to take charge of military affairs in the province. O...

29/09/2022

S01E29 Taiping Rebellion: Introducing Zeng Guofan This week we regroup and look at the big picture of what the Taiping Rebellion is showing about the theme of our podcast, and we introduce Zeng Guofan, a guy we here at Chinese Revolutions (we as in the "more fun to say 'we' than 'I' because it makes...

15/09/2022

S01E28 Taiping Rebellion: Unequal Treaties and Modernizing China This week, we're talking about how the unequal treaties forced on China during the Second O***m War further clarified anti-imperialism as a driver in later Chinese revolutions. Foreign powers readily turned to force to push things alon...

08/09/2022

S01E27 Taiping Rebellion: Second O***m War-Storming the Dagu Forts As part of the ongoing series on the Taiping Rebellion, we're taking a look at the storming of the Dagu Forts, which guarded the waterway approaching Beijing. While the civil war between official Qing forces and Taiping rebels was go...

Do you know what Sun Yat-Sen (the "George Washington" of modern  ) had as a nickname? Hong Xiuquan! Same as the leader o...
06/09/2022

Do you know what Sun Yat-Sen (the "George Washington" of modern ) had as a nickname? Hong Xiuquan! Same as the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Find out more on the Chinese Revolutions

01/09/2022

S01E26 Taiping Rebellion: Hong Rengan in Nanjing In this episode, we go over Hong Rengan's journey from Hong Kong to Nanjing, what it was like when he got there, and his prospects for changing the Taiping movement. Today's episode substantially based on Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the Wes...

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