China's Christian Civil War: Hong Rengan, Zeng Goufan & The Taiping Civil War | Countryball History

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💬Learn about The Taiping Rebellion, Taiping Civil War Hong Xiuquan, Hong Rengan, Zeng Guofan, God's Chinese Son, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the humanities at large with CallMeEzekiel in this fun and informative video presented in the Polandball/Countryball style.

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[buzter]

Damn, The fate of zeng actually stung, he pulled a Cincinnatus and was treated like a traitor, The Qing was truly doomed to fail.

[Morlev]

Weird how Zeng was accused of being corrupt despite being humble and loyal. I guess the aftermath of exhausting and destructive civil war was too much for people to bare so they had to find an outlet for their frustration.

[Kristof]

Me when I read about the Taiping rebelion:
> Oh this is goofy
> So they actually believe him??
> HE DID WHAT?
> HOW MANY DIED?!

Truly, the goofiest and most tragic moment in history

[nalanhazzard]

Who's here on the day it came out callmeEzekiel is criminally unrated

[atypicalprogrammer]

Are you going to continue this series of series, perhaps with the Boxer Rebellion next?

The century of humiliation is criminally underrated outside China.

[clover]

🎉I feel so bad for Zeng Guofan he was smart enough to address fix the problems of army and knew that he was bad at warfer disbanded the army when they were no longer needed to prevent another rebellion and ramand loyal but was treated poorly

[genericyoutubeaccount]

As the Qing retook a city they murdered anybody who was not wearing the hair style known as the Queue. Anybody with bangs or sideburns was immediately executed.

[TEC]

So early Hong Xiuquan is still taking his civil service exam

[melvinlemay]

Wow. Learned a lot in this series. It's interesting to consider how history could have been different had the rebellion succeeded. In the last video I learned that this new Chinese Christianity was on a path to effectively become a fourth major abrahamic religion. In this video we see that China could have started its modernization efforts much earlier and under a likely much more moderate and stable system. With that head start it's interesting to imagine how powerful China could have become earlier on.

[Nikolapoleon]

It would seem that in the common lexicon, the Taiping Rebellion and the Heavenly Kingdom in particular have been ignored or ridiculed into little more than a bad joke about how "weird" or even "barbaric" Chinese history can be.
I love these videos for making sense of the conflict, and in so doing busting myths about the Taiping Rebellion and the people involved in it. I for one feel as though I have a greater understanding and, more importantly, much greater respect for both sides, but the rebels especially.

[Viper_Vic]

The parallels between the Taipings and the Communists are striking. Two autocratic and revolutionary movements that promised a more egalitarian society. Yet they were polar opposites when it came to religion and tradition. It's almost like the Communist Party was the Heavenly Kingdom stripped of all its adornments.

[adampleasants]

While Hong Tianguifu was captured, many other Taiping leaders were able to escape. The coolest one has got to be Hong Quanfu, one of Hong Xiuquan's relatives and Lord of Three Thousand Years. After escaping the collapse of the Taiping state in 1864, he worked in Hong Kong as a sailor. In the 1890s, he left sailing to take up traditional medicine and became a leader of the religious Tiandihui. In the 1900s, he was contacted by Xie Zantai, a Revive China Society member (along with Sun Yat-sen, who had since fled into exile following the failed First Guangzhou Uprising in 1895). There was going to be another rebellion in Guangzhou in 1903, and Xie Zantai wanted to use the Taiping memory to form an initial army of religious zealots in the name of overthrowing the Qing and establishing a constitutional monarchy -- the Great Mingshun Heavenly Kingdom, with Hong Quanfu as the General of Heaven and likely monarch.

The rebellion was ousted by the people they had trusted to buy them weapons and so the actual rebellion was a rushed three-day flash in the pan. Hong Quanfu once again escaped via Singapore, and managed to return to Hong Kong a few years later, where he died.

[ExtraBloxxer]

Taiping Rebellion: The Fanmade 2nd Bible

[monad]

Something that was not mentioned was the important role that Charles "Chinese" Gordon and the Ever Victorious Army played in the war. Their previous commander, American mercenary Frederick Townsend Ward, was previously part of William Walker's failed expedition to create an American slave state in Central America. There were a ton of crazy characters in that mercenary army. Filipinos, British, American, so on. What is also not mentioned is that Issachar Roberts, the American man who introduced Hong Xiuquan to Christianity, actually felt really bad about all the death and ended up visiting him in his Nanjing palace. He ended up being disgusted by the whole thing and fled.

[galaxyomega]

17:45 when you're so powerful you can just walk through a civil war unharmed

[MustachioMan]

Holy cow, I just found your channel and finished watching the first part. What a nice coincidence!

[Mark_Williams]

You're not the historian we deserve, you're the historian we need. Another fantastic video 😃

[wolfgang]

The production quality of the videos has dramatically increased, great work from you and your team.

[tomi]

A video on the opening up of Japan and the Boshin war would be pretty cool i think