[P2P-F] Sud de la Chine : Une des guerres les plus meurtireres - 1851 to 1864

Mon Dec 5 14:48:55 CET 2011

this is new to me!

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> deja entendu parler de cette guerre ci ? , avec sa capitale a Nanjing,
> et comprenant une grande partie du sud de la chine :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom
>
> A heterodox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy> Christian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity> convert,
> Hong led an army that controlled much of southern China, with about 30
> million people. The rebel Kingdom announced social reforms and the
> replacement of Confucianism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism>,
> Buddhism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism> and Chinese folk religion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion> by
> a form of Christianity, holding that Hong Xiuquan was the younger brother
> of Jesus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus>. The Taiping areas were
> besieged by Qing forces throughout most of the rebellion. The Qing
> government defeated the rebellion with the eventual aid of French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Empire>
>  and British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire> forces.* The
> conflict was one of the deadliest wars in history, with about 25 million
> killed, mainly civilians.*
>
>

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