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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

It's considered to be the bloodiest civil war in history, but there's a fair chance you've never heard of it. The Taiping rebellion convulsed China from 1850 to 1864, leading to over

20 million deaths and severely weakening the Qing dynasty. But it remains little known outside of

China today. In this Everything You Wanted

to know episode, Professor Stephen R. Platt takes us through the key events of the rebellion

and explains why it hasn't received the attention it deserves. He speaks to Raubatah.

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