Ep. 280 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Now's as good a time as any to finally feature this well-known, regularly requested topic from Qing history. This is arguably the pivotal event that got the dominos falling that led to the Warlord Era and the later founding of the PRC. For anyone unfamiliar with the Taiping Rebellion, how it got started, and the situation in China during the mid 19th century, over the next few episodes, I'll try and lay it all out for you. We'll get to about 1851 this time around. This epic history has a cast of thousands. Feel free to check out the episode page at the website to view all the terms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Lossel Montgomery here with a quick promo message for you, first of all. |
| 0:04.9 | Thanks for listening to the China History Podcast, my everlasting gratitude for checking |
| 0:09.8 | it out. |
| 0:10.8 | Hope you like it. |
| 0:11.8 | I wanted to let you know about a couple other teacup media shows. |
| 0:15.1 | Even if you're not a tea drinker, please go check out my tea history podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | We humans collectively down about a billion cups a tea a day. |
| 0:23.8 | Other than the water we drink and the air we breathe, nothing is consumed in greater quantities |
| 0:28.8 | than tea. |
| 0:29.8 | The tea history podcast explores tea's roots as a bitter medicine that China's tea masters |
| 0:36.3 | transformed into a beverage that inspired a million great ideas. |
| 0:40.9 | The history of how tea developed over the ages and however single civilization on earth |
| 0:46.4 | fell for it. |
| 0:47.5 | It's a great story. |
| 0:48.8 | The tea history podcast. |
| 0:50.8 | And while I have you, please also give a listen to another history show called the Chinese |
| 0:55.1 | Sayings Podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | The Chinese language is chock full of thousands and thousands of these idioms or Chinese sayings |
| 1:03.0 | called Cheng Yu in Mandarin. |
| 1:05.6 | Every one of them is grounded in some event or story from Chinese history. |
| 1:10.5 | And at the Chinese Sayings Podcast, each episode, we look at one, break it down, tell the |
| 1:16.5 | story behind it, oftentimes featuring historical characters straight out of the China |
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